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JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY SOLVED. 


BY 


DAVID, 


PRINCE OF EPHRAIM, AND HEIR TO THE THRONE OF JERUSALEM 
AND OF THE HOLY OR PROMISED LAND. 


ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN: 

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IRVIN MOORE, GENERAL AGENT, 

BOX 936. 



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JEZREEL: 



THE PROBLEM 



JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY SOLVED. 



BY 



DAVID, 

PRINCE OF EPHRAIM, AND HEIR TO THE THRONE OF JERUSALEM 
AND OF THE HOLY OR PROMISED LAND. 



" Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, 
and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great 
shall be the day of Jezreel."— Hos. i, 11. 




ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN: 

IRVIN MOORE, GENERAL AGENT, 

BOX 936. 



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" For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, 
and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, 
and without an ephod, and without teraphim. 

"Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord 
their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his 
goodness in the latter days." — Hos. iii, 4, 5. 

"And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince 
among them; I the Lord have spoken it." — Ezek. xxxiv, 24. 



PREFACE 



The object of this little work is to give a brief sketch of 
the kingdom, laws and religion of the future, wherein justice, 
mercy and peace shall meet together ; which is destined to 
supplant the present governments and religions of the world. 
The work is offered for inspection with the sincerest of motives, 
and sent on its mission in the firm belief that many will 
appreciate the pure and lofty principles which it inculcates. 
It is hoped that those who read it will lay aside prejudice 
and weigh its purport in the balance of reason, justice and 
truth, and, above all things, according to the great standard, 
the Bible, and not according to the gospel of the churches 
of the nineteenth century ; for their end has come, and the 
hour of their visitation is at hand. 

This is a prophetic book based upon the standard prophets 
and apostles, and is intended to inform those who read it of 
the time and place of many of the great events mentioned in 
scripture, of the coming of Christ, the burning of the tares, 
and the setting up of this great kingdom of God. 



CONTENTS 



PAGK 

Chap. I. Onk prophet more . . 9 

II. The temple .14 

III. Michaei 19 

IV. Jezreel 24 

V. The judgment . .29 

VI. The saints are to judge the world 38 

VII. A WHITE HORSE 43 

VIII. The garden of Eden 48 

IX. One from the north 53 

X. One God 58 

XI. Polygamy . . 64 

XII. Bondservice 70 

XIII. The resurrection 75 

XIV. A new heaven and a new earth ..... 82 
XV. The last gospel . . 91 



CHAPTER I. 



ONE PROPHET MORE. 



" Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the com- 
ing of the great and dreadful day of the Lord : 

"And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, 
and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and 
smite the earth with a curse." — Mai. iv, 5, 6. 

This is one text among many which proves that this prophet 
has to come before the judgment and the kingdom, and the 
coming of the Lord my God and all the saints. He will have 
to offer a platform that both Jew and Christian can accept — 
will have to accept, or else stand the judgment, and the curse of 
Almighty God that he will bring upon the earth. 

Before I give the principles that Jew and Christian will be 
called to meet on, it is quite necessary to show from the sacred 
oracles that such a prophet, priest and king is spoken of, and 
promised to his people. 

Moses is the first that foretold the coming of a prophet like 
unto himself ; which the people will be called to listen to, or else 
be cut off and suffer loss (Deut. xviii, 15-22). 

Moses says this prophet is to be one of your brethren ; so let 
no fanciful idea enter your mind that he is anything above or 
below a man. This man is not to be sent without sufficient proof 
of his mission. His understanding of the proper interpretation 
of scripture will be such that he will foretell events of the 
greatest magnitude, both of good and of evil, according to what- 
ever side they elect to stand on ; and there is one event in par- 
ticular that will entitle him to the name Elijah, because it is a 
prediction of fire, of the burning of the tares, in a certain locality 
and for a certain purpose, which will be given in its proper place. 
Moses gives us the key how we shall know if he is a true 
prophet of God, or an impostor : " If the thing follow not, or 
come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken." 



10 JEZREEL. 

So all can test the matter for themselves. Elijah is to be the 
leading instrument in the restitution of all things spoken of by 
the prophets, and referred to by Peter in Acts iii, 21-23. Christ 
had ascended to heaven at that time, and was not to come again 
until the great restitution spoken of ; and, according to Peter, 
the prophet like unto Moses has to come first, to be instrumental 
in the restitution before Christ comes. This prophet is called 
David by Jeremiah, as it is written, "Behold, the days come, 
saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch, 
and a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment 
and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and 
Israel shall dwell safely ; and this is his name whereby he shall 
be called, The Lord our Righteousness " (Jer. xxiii, 5, 6). 

The restitution is to take place in David's day, and he is to 
be their king, and teacher of righteousness to the people. 
"But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, 
whom I will raise up unto them" (Jer. xxx, 9). "And their 
nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed 
from the midst of them ; and I will cause him to draw near, and 
he shall approach unto me : for who is this that engaged his 
heart to approach unto me ? saith the Lord. The fierce anger 
of the Lord shall not return, until he have done it, and until he 
have performed the intents of his heart ; in the latter days ye 
shall consider it" (21, 24). 

Again the prophet holds up to our view the coming of this 
prophet like unto Moses. " Behold, the days come, saith the 
Lord, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised 
unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. In those 
days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness 
to grow up unto David ; and he shall execute judgment and 
righteousness in the land. For thus saith the Lord, David shall 
never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel ; 
neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to 
offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do 
sacrifice continually (Jer. xxxiii, 14, 15, 17, 18). This David is 
never to want a son to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel ; 
that is, he is never to be without a son — a perpetual dynasty, 
to and for all time to come. Also the priests and Levites are to 
be perpetual. This David is to spring from the house of Joseph 



ONE PROPHET MORE. 11 

and of Ephfaim. Jacob gave the birthright to Joseph. Judah 
was not promised a perpetual dynasty; as it is written, "The 
sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from be- 
tween his feet, until Shiloh come" (Gen. xlix, 10). 

The tribe of Judah was to have the sceptre until after Christ 
came ; and when the kingdom is set up, the sceptre is promised 
to Joseph ; as it is written, " Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a 
fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall. The 
archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated 
him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands 
were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob ; 
from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel " (Gen. xlix, 
22-24). The stone here alluded to has reference to the same 
that is spoken of by Daniel, that was to smite the image and 
destroy it. This stone is the kingdom of God, with their Prince 
from the house of Joseph at their head, that is to smite the 
nations. " And the stone . . . became a great mountain and 
tilled the whole earth " (Dan. ii, 35). 

Jacob gave Joseph the most unbounded promise of future 
greatness. " The blessings of thy father have prevailed above 
the blessings of my progenitors, unto the utmost bound of the 
everlasting hills : they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on 
the crown of the head of him that was separate from his 
brethren" (Gen. xlix, 26). The crown or sceptre is to be given 
to Joseph. Moses corroborates this interpretation in that 
sublime poem on the plains of Moab, at the time he was called 
away. " And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, 
for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep 
that coucheth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth 
by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, 
and for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the 
precious things of the lasting hills, and for the precious things 
of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him 
that dwelt in the bush ; let the blessing come upon the head of 
Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated 
from his brethren. His glory is like the firstling of his bul- 
lock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them 
he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth : and 



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they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the 
thousands of Manasseh" (Deut. xxxiii, 13-17). 

Joseph is the favorite, and has the promise of the birthright, 
and of the dynasty that will have no end. Reuben was the first- 
born of Israel; "but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, 
his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of 
Israel : and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the. birth- 
right. For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came 
the chief ruler ; but the birthright was Joseph's " (1 Chron. v, 
1,2). 

Ephraim is called the firstborn because he succeeds Joseph, 
and holds the birthright at the present and for all future time ; 
although his rights and the rights of his people are not recog- 
nized, but they are at hand to come. 

This new and everlasting kingdom that is to be set up is 
called the New Covenant, that is never to be broken up. This 
kingdom is not to be the same as the old one under Judah. 
" Thus saith the Lord God, Remove the diadem, and take off 
the crown ; this shall not be the same : exalt him that is low, 
and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn 
it ; and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is ; and 
I will give it him" (Ezek. xxi, 26, 27). It is the right of the 
one whom God sees fit to choose ; but must be of the house of 
Joseph and of Ephraim, as predicted. 

The psalmist David speaks of this other David that is to be 
raised up in the latter days, in the following words : " Then 
thou spakest in vision to thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid 
help upon one that is mighty ; I have exalted one chosen out of 
the people. I have found David my servant ; with my holy oil 
have I anointed him : with whom my hands shall be established ; 
mine arm also shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not exact 
upon him ; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. And I will 
beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate 
him. But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him ; 
and in my name shall his horn be exalted. I will set his hand 
also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. He shall cry 
unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my 
salvation. Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the 
kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, 



ONE PROPHET MORE. , 13 

and my covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will 
I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven" 
(Ps. lxxxix, 19-20). The psalmist David was not the first king 
of Israel in his day ; so the text will not apply to him and his 
throne, to last as the days of heaven ; and the psalmist David 
has no throne on earth. Hence it is easy to perceive that it 
applies to the David of Ephraim, to be raised up in the latter 
davs. 



CHAPTER II. 



THE TEMPLE. 



" But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the moun- 
tain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of 
the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills ; and 
people shall flow unto it. 

" And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go 
up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of 
Jacob ; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his 
paths ; for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the 
Lord from Jerusalem. 

" And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong 
nations afar off ; and they shall beat their swords into plow- 
shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks : nation shall not lift 
up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 

" But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his 
fig-tree ; and none shall make them afraid : for the mouth of the 
Lord of hosts hath spoken it." — Micah iv, 1-4. 

Looking at the state of affairs all over the world, many well- 
disposed people may doubt of this good time to come. They do 
not have faith in the word of God. They behold a multitude of 
sects, parties, and opinions, which it would be hopeless to expect 
to unite. The fault must, of course, be in the people ; not in 
God, nor in the bible. Man is permitted the widest latitude in 
his choice of what kind of business to follow, of what kind of a 
house to build, and so forth ; but he is not allowed a wide field 
in matters pertaining to law and the principles of religion. It 
is laid down for us in the plainest terms. The man who steals 
money has not fallen to as low a grade of humanity as the 
minister of the gospel who works his way into a church and 
gives us an adulterated gospel, teaching for bible-truth what is 
not truth, and by so doing trampling the truth and the word of 
God under foot ; despising the truth, and also the man that 



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dares believe it, and by so doing offending his God and injuring 
the community at large. 

The question is, will this good time to eome ever arrive by 
the present systems of teaching on law and religion ? No, 
never ; simply because it is contrary to the bible, to truth and 
to reason. The ministry of the times in which we live seem 
anxious to spread the bible broadcast all over the world, with 
the injunction to believe its teachings ; and they do not believe 
it themselves. They may think, and do claim, that they do, I 
will grant ; but they do not. Do not think me uncharitable or 
unkind; for no church or people is so friendless as that which 
has no one candid enough to point out its errors. The ministry 
teach that if all the people were swallowed up in their different 
churches, and did as they tell them, we should have a millennium 
at once ; but is it true ? No ; the bible distinctly shows that 
there is to be no millennium, no lasting peace, until after all the 
present Christian churches are disbanded, and the people called 
out to accept a better and an older religion, the religion of the 
bible. The hearts of the people require to be turned back again 
to the law and gospel of God, as revealed in the bible. New 
religions and new Gods are not the best. There is to be no 
peace until after the end of the world, and until Christ comes, 
and the kingdom is set up whose centre is to be at Jerusalem; for 
the law is to go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from 
Jerusalem. After that they shall beat their swords into plow- 
shares, and learn war no more. This good time is not to come 
until the house of the Lord is built in the top of the mountains, 
that is, the temple of the Lord, on the hill of Zion. It is to be 
for a dwelling-place for the Most High to dwell among his 
people ; to teach them, at all times, the principles of truth and 
justice, and see that they are carried out to the letter. 

There is nothing, perhaps, that we could think of, that would 
work as quick a reformation for the good of our fellow man as a 
just and honest government. If I had to dispense with one or 
the other, I would choose the schoolmaster and the honest gov- 
ernment, and let the ministers of the gospel go by the board, 
until they learned to preach all the truth, and not a part of it 
only. Adulterations are not wholesome, and the soul craves for 
principles of truth, or should do so, as much as the body craves 



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for food. The body will die for want of food; so will the spirit, 
if we fail to find the truth and act up to it. The entire man will 
as completely go back to his original elements as though he had 
never existed, and beautiful worlds will be moving in order in 
the great universe of God, and he ail unconscious of either the 
joy or the sorrow of its occupants. 

A government of intelligence, honesty and justice is what 
is wanted, and a church of the same stamp, to go hand in hand; 
and it is such a government and church that is offered to the 
people for their acceptance. 

There is a full description of a temple, from the fortieth 
chapter of Ezekiel to the end of the book} which is to be built 
for the honor and worship of. God, on Zion at Jerusalem ; from 
whence will be promulgated the pure principles of law and 
religion, without mixture of error. " And David my servant 
shall be king over them : and they all shall have one shepherd : 
they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, 
and do them. And they shall dwell in the land that I have 
given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt ; 
and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and 
children's children, for ever ; and my servant David shall be 
their prince for ever. Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace 
with them ; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them : and 
I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary 
in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be 
with them ; yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 
And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, 
when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever- 
more" (Ezek. xxxvii, 14-28). 

This temple is the one spoken of as the second temple, which 
was to be greater than the first, greater than Solomon's. This 
one has never been built. Solomon's temple was destroyed and 
rebuilt several times, but never came up to its first glory ; but 
our future temple is to excel Solomon's in all its glory, and will 
have one advantage over the first, — it is to be for evermore. 
" Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a 
prey ; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. And I will 
set up one Shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even 
my servant David ; he shall feed them, and he shall be their 



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shepherd. And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant 
David a prince among them ; I the Lord have spoken it" (Ezek. 
xxxiv, 22-24). 

The prophet shows that this David shall be a priest npon his 
throne, to offer sacrifice and burnt offerings unto the Lord', on 
Sabbaths and on solemn feasts. 

The Lord, when he comes to his temple, is to come in through 
the east gate, facing the Mount of Olives ; and no man will be 
allowed to enter in through it, because the Lord, the God of 
Israel, came into his temple through that gate. It is for the 
prince : he shall enter in through the porch of that gate, and go 
out by the way of the same. " Then he brought me back the 
way of the gate of the outward sanctuary, which looketh toward 
the east, and it was shut. Then said the Lord unto me, This 
gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter 
in by it ; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in 
by it, therefore it shall l?e shut. It is for the prince : the prince, 
he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord ; he shall enter by 
the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way 
of the same" (Ezek. xliv, 1-3). This gate is to be forever held 
sacred to the Lord, because the Lord comes through that gate 
into the temple, to dwell there forever with his people. 

All the land from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates 
is to be divided by lot for an inheritance, with the temple in the 
midst ; and the priests are to get their inheritance in the holy 
portion of the land, for houses for the ministers of the sanctuary. 
" And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on 
the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the 
possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, 
and before the possession of the city, from the west side west- 
ward, and from the east side eastward ; and the length shall be 
over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the 
east border" (Ezek. xlv, 1). "Thus saith the Lord God, If the 
prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof 
shall be his sons' ; it shall be their possession by inheritance. 
But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, 
then it shall be his to the year of liberty ; after it shall return 
to the prince : but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them. 
Moreover, the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance 



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by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession: but he shall 
give his sons' inheritance out of his own possession ; that my 
people be not scattered every man from his possession " (Ezek. 
xlvi, 16-18). 

I have brought in the land, and the people, and the coming 
of Christ, in connection with the temple ; the coming of the 
Lord through the east gate, and the prophet like unto Moses, 
and how he is connected with this great restitution. The 
prophet like unto Moses is one and the same as the prince in 
Ezekiel. This great restitution is the only bright star that 
seems to beckon us on to hope ; for be assured that there is not 
the slightest prospect of bettering the world in any other way 
than that which is laid down by the bible. The wicked and 
seducers are waxing worse and worse, and the only way to be 
able to stand on Christ's right hand is to investigate this great 
question, and all the important questions connected with it. I 
can give only a few quotations from the prophets, in this brief 
work. Turn to the Book, read the sacred oracles. I will do my 
best to point out the way ; but I cannot do the work of others, 
and the man that fails to take an interest in this great restitu- 
tion will suffer serious loss, — a loss that perhaps he will never 
be able to repair. 

The prince is instructed not to take of the people's posses- 
sion by oppression, which excludes him from being anything but 
a man. Such advice referring to Christ would be altogether out 
of place ; and there is a distinction made between the sons of 
the prince and his servants, in respect to giving them possessions. 
So the prince can have no reference to Christ. 

The division of the land, in this final and great restitution, 
is to be different from what it was under Joshua. Examine the 
last chapter of Ezekiel : " It was round about eighteen thousand 
measures : and the name of the city from that day shall be, The 
Lord is there" (Ezek. xlviii, 35). 



CHAPTER III. 

MICHAEL. 

" And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince 
which standeth for the children of thy people ; and there shall 
be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation 
even to that same time :• and at that time thy people shall be 
delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. 

" And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall 
awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlast- 
ing contempt. 

" And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the 
firmament ; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the 
stars for ever and ever." — Dan. xii, 1-3. 

Michael is one and the same with David and Elijah the 
prophet, who is to stand up for the children of God, both Jew 
and Gentile. Michael means one like God/ David means 
beloved. Man was made in the image and likeness of God ; 
and, as a matter of fact, anyone whom he sees fit to choose is 
like him. Malachi calls him Elijah, in view of his office ; for 
he is to predict a great fire, the burning of the tares, as the one 
great proof of his mission. He is to inform the people of the 
locality of the fire, and give them something definite concerning 
the object of it. And as the fire coming down and burning up 
the sacrifice on the altar was a proof to the Jews that Elijah was 
a true prophet of God ; even so the prediction of David, the 
latter-day Elijah, will be a proof to the people of the present 
time that he is sent of God to redeem his scattered people. 
Daniel gives the time when this prophet, or Michael, was to be 
born. " And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken 
away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there 
shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days" (Dan. xii, 11). 

The daily pagan abomination was taken away, and the 
abomination of popery was set up, in the year of our Lord 538, 



20 JEZREEL. 

at the time the last of three horns of the Roman Empire was 
given to the pope ; so acid 1290 years— a day standing for a year 
in prophecy — to 538, and the result is 1828, that is, the year 
Michael was born, on the 12th of February. " Blessed is he that 
waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and 
thirty days" (Dan. xii, 12); that is, blessed is he, Michael, to be 
that year. Putting down 538 for a starting-point, which is the 
proper date, and adding 1335 years, we have 1873 ; and that year 
he started on a tour to the Holy Land ; and while sitting over 
against the Mount of Olives, on the hill Miser, or little hill, 
looking down on the land of the Jordan, the eyes of his mind 
appeared to be opened, and he saw, what others have failed to 
see, the meaning of the parable of Christ on the burning of the 
tares ; and that was fulfilled which was written by the prophet 
Daniel, that Michael should be blessed that year. And the 
blessing was given to Michael that he should transfer it to the 
people whom he is to stand up for ; for it would be no satisfac- 
tion to him to know this great thing, if it were not to be im- 
parted to the people. He is not to stand up for himself, but 
" for the children of thy people." Michael was grievously dis- 
appointed in Jerusalem at that time. He expected speedy results; 
but, not understanding the parable of the burning of the tares, his 
expectation was not realized. But even this was a f uliillment of 
prophecy ; for it is written, " He that goeth forth weeping shall 
doubtless come again, bringing his sheaves with him." Michael 
will undoubtedly return, after the burning of the tares, to the 
holy city, bringing the multitudes of Jews and Christians, all to 
be grafted into the Jewish olive-tree, or church, on one common 
platform, no more to be divided. The end of the world is the 
end of the gentile dispensation, with all the Christian churches, 
governments and systems that are not perfect. "And if the 
casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world, what 
shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead," even to 
the whole world ? 

"At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the 
Lord : and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name 
of the Lord, to Jerusalem : neither shall they walk any more 
after the imagination of their evil heart. In those days the 
house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they 



MICHAEL. 21 

shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that 
I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers" (Jer. iii, 17, 
18). " For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of 
Judah ; that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. 
The seed also of his servants shall inherit it ; and they that love 
his name shall dwell therein" (Ps. lxix, 35, 36). "Beautiful for 
situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides 
of the north, the city of the great King. God is known in her 
palaces for a refuge" (Ps. xlviii, 2, 3). 

The uniting of the Jewish and Christian world is beautifully 
presented to us under the figure of uniting two sticks. " More- 
over, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, 
For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions : then 
take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of 
Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions : and 
join them one to another into one stick ; and they shall become 
one in thine hand. And when the children of thy people shall 
speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not show us what thou 
meanest by these ? Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, 
Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of 
Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his fellows, and will put them 
with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one 
stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. And the sticks 
whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. 
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will 
take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither 
they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring 
them into their own land : and I will make them one nation in 
the land upon the mountains of Israel ; and one king shall be 
king to them all ; and they shall be no more two nations, neither 
shall they be divided into two kingdoms, any more at all" 
(Ezek. xxxvii, 10-22). 

As may be easily seen, this kingdom has never as yet been set 
up ; for, once established it shall never be pulled down. And 
then it says, "And David my servant shall be king over them : 
and they all shall have one shepherd : they shall also walk in 
my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them" (Ezek. 
xxxvii, 24). The Jews failed to walk in his statutes, and also 
failed to do them : the text, therefore, refers not to the past. 



22 JEZEEEL. 

The ten tribes were carried captive to Babylon, and from thence 
they never returned to the Holy Land. We find a little glimpse 
of history in the Apocrypha, but how reliable it is not easy to 
say, — that the ten tribes crossed the headwaters of the Euphra- 
tes, and went a year and a half's journey where no man had 
ever dwelt. If this was so, they must have traveled toward 
northern Europe. There is no doubt in my mind that the ten 
tribes went to northern Europe, and that they became mixed 
up in the Protestant element in those countries, and that they 
are now to be found, principally as Protestant Christians. The 
Jews never took kindly to Catholicism, the pretensions of the 
pope being too high to suit them ; yet they entertained ideas of 
self-importance not less pretentious. The doctrine of the Trinity, 
which the pope invented, has done more to keep the Jews out 
of the Christian church than all other things put together. 
The Jew has been loyal to one principle of truth, — that there 
is but one God ; but they have failed to find out that Christ was 
that selfsame being. And the Christians have equally failed 
to find out that Jesus Christ is the very and eternal Father, the 
one only and true God. So the one will not have anything to 
boast over the other when Christ comes in the glory of his 
kingdom. 

" And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall 
awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and ever- 
lasting contempt" (Dan. xii, 2). What is this awaking? It 
is the awaking of the minds, of the understanding, of the 
people to the solution of this great subject of the kingdom. It 
is the merest dream to suppose that it refers to the resurrection 
of the body. A dead body does not exist, and God himself 
could not raise a thing that does not exist, for the simple reason 
that it is not there to raise. God could create a body, it is true; 
but the bible tells us that he finished creation about six thousand 
years ago. The dead body of Lazarus was perfectly made, and 
all it wanted was the life ; but that same body, if allowed to 
return to dust and gases, would require, in order to be brought 
to life again, that the work of creating should be re-established. 
It took the might of a being who created all things to raise 
Lazarus, but Christ did not exert the creative power in the 
act. 



MICHAEL. Vd 

" And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the 
firmament ; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the 
stars for ever and ever" (Dan. xii, 3). This turning many to 
righteousness has direct reference to those who will now take an 
active part in investigating and instructing others as well as 
themselves in this doctrine of the kingdom that is to be set up 
at Jerusalem ; and they shall possess the good land, and partake 
of kingly and priestly glory, and shine as brilliant stars in the 
hearts of the people of the kingdom for ever. 

The valley of dry bones in Ezekiel points to the same event 
as that in Daniel, — to the time when Michael stands up, and of 
the uniting of Jew and Christian on one common platform of 
truth and justice, both in state and church. 

The stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, 
and which represents the Christian world at the present time, 
must be joined to the stick of Judah, which typifies the Jews 
of the present day, into one kingdom, on the mountains of 
Israel, to form a great centre of government for the whole 
world ; to send forth its laws and religion as a healing balm to 
this suffering earth, which is groaning under the grievous 
wrongs that are being perpetrated every day under the name of 
law and religion. 

This great restitution of the kingdom is what is called the 
first resurrection. It will place man back half-way at least to 
his original position and happiness, and is the preliminary step 
toward restoring him to the state from which he fell, which is 
to take place at the end of the thousand years millennium; 
when man will be fully reinstated in his primeval condition. 
This last event is what is called the second resurrection, and 
it will be complete, for death as well as hell is to be destroyed 
at that time. All things shall be restored except the wicked, 
which shall be utterly extinct. No sorrow, no crying ; for the 
former things have passed away and all things are become new, 
or renewed. 



CHAPTER IV. 

JEZREEL. 

"Then shall the children of Judah and the children of 
Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, 
and they shall come up out of the land ; for great shall be the 
day of Jezreel" (Hos. i, 11). 

Jezreel is a plain, as you go from Mount Carmel toward the 
Jordan. It has been the great battle-ground of centuries, for 
great and strong nations, for the possession of the Holy Land, 
each to lose it in turn, until today it is nominally ruled over by 
the dying Turk and the tents of Kedar. 

It was in the valley of Jezreel that Ephraim, with the ten 
tribes of Israel, fought with the king of Babylon's forces, when 
Israel fell down slain, and the survivors were carried captive to 
Babylon, never again to see their native land. " And it shall 
come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel 
in .the valley of Jezreel" (Hos. i, 5). It was in the valley of 
Jezreel that the hosts of Israel fell ; and it is into the same 
valley that they are to come up in the latter days, with the 
shout of a mighty host, to possess the good land. 

Ephraim was carried captive about 680 years before the 
Christian era; and it seems that, according to the word of the 
Lord by his servant Moses (Lev. xxvi, 27, 28), there was to be a 
period of seven times, before the sanctuary was to be cleansed : 
which evidently referred to judgments that were to come upon 
the nation that held the Holy Land and sanctuary in possession 
at that time. One time being 360, seven times would be 2520 
years: subtract the 680 years before the Christian era, and it 
leaves 1840 ; and at that time Turkey fell, and lost her inde- 
pendence by coming under the control of England, France, 
Austria and Prussia. History has proved this prophecy to be 
correct. Ephraim was not to return at the end of the seven 
times. Nothing more was intended than that the rubbish 

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JEZREEL. 25 

should begin to be cleared away ; and Turkey lias been on 
the wane ever since. 

The restoration of Israel is. not to take place until after the 
burning of the tares, and the coming of Christ is not to occur 
for some time after the restoration of Israel ; and at the time 
his people will be lighting a battle in the valley of Jehoshaphat. 
Thus those who expect Christ to come before the restitution 
may certainly anticipate disappointment, as may also those who 
look for the restitution before Michael stands up. Christ said 
the tares are to be gathered first, " then shall the righteous shine 
forth in the kingdom of their Father." 

Michael is to stand up to instruct both Jew and Gentile in 
the true principles of law and theology, before the people will 
awake from their dogmas of error ; and those who accept the 
truth, and act up to it, and do all in their power to help carry 
out this good and great work, which is to bring such signal 
blessings to this suffering world, shall be gathered into the 
garner of the kingdom at Jerusalem, and be made rulers over 
many things ; for God w r ill force all nations to come up to Jeru- 
salem, and accept his own truth and his own religion, for the 
good of all. If any doubt that there is to be a universal king- 
dom set up, they must doubt the very plainest teaching of the 
bible. "I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the 
Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the 
Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And 
there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that 
all people, nations, and languages, should serve him : his 
dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, 
and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed" (Dan. vii, 
13, 14). 

The prophet tells us, in the twelfth chapter, that this great 
prince is to stand up at a certain time. He is called Michael in 
one place, and one like the Son of man in the other. Michael 
(one like God) is to be brought before the Ancient of days. 
Christ is the Ancient of days, and Christ confers and confirms 
this kingdom on David and his heirs for ever, " and it shall not 
pass away"; so there can be no time in the future when this 
kingdom shall cease to exist. This kingdom is not to be set up 
until after the end of the world : the world must end first. If 



26 JEZREEL. 

the wicked and seducers are to wax worse unto the end, the end 
must come first, before this good time of peace. Christ is to 
come to judge the world at its close ; and if it were as it should 
be, there would be no need of the judgment. The judgment is 
to cast down evil-doers, impostors, false teachers, in all churches 
and outside of all' churches. An infidel inside of a church is no 
better than one outside, and may be worse, and in a position to 
do more mischief, than his erring brother. There is one thing 
certain, that if Elijah the prophet does not teach a different gos- 
pel from any and all of the ministers of the present Christian 
churches, he must needs be an impostor, for he claims to have 
received a special mission from God ; and furthermore, if the 
truth is preached by the ministers of the Christian church, he 
can have received no special mission, from the simple fact that 
it is preached already, and could not be a special messenger. 
Herein is a clear issue, that must be met. 

The law and gospel that David is called upon to teach is so 
different from the law and gospel that is advocated by the Chris- 
tian church, that it will arouse the animosity of many of her 
teachers, and they will oppose the truth in the most bitter 
manner. They will appeal to the prejudices of the people, to 
their early teaching, to popular opinion, to anything, in fact, but 
the bible. They will quote the bible with one breath and mis- 
construe it in accordance with some dogma with the next. 

" Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and 
his praise in the congregation of saints. Let Israel rejoice in 
him that made him ; let the children of Zion be joyful in their 
King. Let them praise his name in the dance : let them sing 
praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. For the Lord 
taketh pleasure in his people : he will beautify the meek with 
salvation. Let the saints be joyful in glory : let them sing aloud 
upon their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, 
and a two-edged sword in their hand ; to execute vengeance 
upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people ; to Jbind 
their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron ; 
to execute upon them the judgment written : this honor have all 
his saints. Praise ye the Lord" (Ps. cxlix). "And he that 
overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I 
give power over the nations : and he shall rule them with a rod 



JEZREEL. 27 

of iron ; as the vessels of a potter shall they he broken to 
shivers: even as I received of my Father" (Rev. ii, 26, 27). 
The judgment has to come at the end of the world, to smash, 
break, destroy, and overthrow nations, laws and systems that are 
not good ; to make an end of usurpers. " He showeth his word 
unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He hath 
not dealt so with any nation ; and as fov his judgments, they 
have not known them. Praise ye the Lord" (Ps. cxlvii, 19, 20). 

The vain boast of some of the nations of the earth, if not all 
of them, that they exercise the best government that ever was, 
or ever will be, is unwarranted, for God says they have not 
known his judgments, much less are they executing them ; they 
are oppressing the people with their vile systems. Well, the 
nations are now called upon to show cause why they shall exist. 
Look at the crooked systems of elections, and at the office-hunt- 
ing, and at the delays of the administration of law, and at city 
corporations, which are little less than legalized blackmailing ! 
They oppress the stranger within their gates, and wo to the 
luckless wight that falls into their clutches, if he has any money. 
The more wicked nations get, the more laws they make. They 
cripple trade and commerce and industry by their prohibitory 
tariffs, and meddle with so many things which do not belong to 
the proper administration of law and justice. The nations 
boldly claim the prerogatives that belong to God, by making 
laws which are contrary to the laws of God ; some, by asserting 
that the people should rule, and others by saying that the king 
ought to rule, without any regard to a constitution, or the laws 
of the all-wise Jehovah that are laid down in the bible ; and the 
consequence is, the wicked rule and the people suffer. " For he 
hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary ; from heaven 
did the Lord behold the earth ; to hear the groaning of the 
prisoner, to loose those that are appointed to death ; to declare 
the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem ; when 
the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve 
the Lord" (Ps. cii, 19-22). 

The Lord hath fully decided that the people and kingdoms 
shall come up to Jerusalem, and accept his laws. The judgments 
of God shall fetch them, if they will not listen to moral suasion. 
" When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his 



28 JEZREEL. 

glory" (Ps. cii, 16). "For God will save Zion, and will build 
the cities of Judah ; that they may dwell there, and have it in 
possession. The seed also of Jiis servants shall inherit it ; and 
they that love his name shall dwell therein" (Ps. lxix, 35, 36). 
The heavens must receive Christ until the time of the great 
restitution spoken of by the mouth of all the prophets ; at which 
time he is coming to meet his people and establish his kingdom 
over all. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE JUDGMENT. 



The question is, what is the judgment, and where shall it be 
held ? 

The judgment is to be held on the earth, and the seat or 
throne of judgment is to be at Jerusalem. " At that time they 
shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord ; and all the nations 
shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem " 
(Jer. iii, 1*7). "For, behold, in those days, and in that time, 
when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the 
valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my 
people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered 
among the nations, and parted my land" (Joel iii, 1, 2). 

The judgment is the harvest, and the harvest is the end of 
the world, and the end of the world means the end of all the 
present forms of government, the end of all the Christian 
churches, the end of all heathen churches ; that is, their name 
and their tenets of theology must be changed ; they must all 
be absorbed and swallowed up in the one great universal church 
of God. And the way of this great change is pointed out very 
clearly in the bible. It is shown by the prophets that God 
is to stretch forth his hand in mighty signs, wonders and 
miracles to help his people to overthrow the nations and 
churches that are opposing the word and will of God. And 
we will now give the first great miracle," and that is the burn- 
ing of the tares, and what is meant by it, and the object of it. 

God will send his angels from heaven, and they will gather 
up the wicked out of the Holy Land, by burning them up on the 
land; and the land is not to be injured, nor the trees of the field, 
nor the houses, nor anything in particular except the wicked: and 
the fire is not to extend beyond the bounds of the Promised Land, 
which is from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates. The 



30 JEZREEL. 

object of the fire is simply to dispossess the land of as many 
of the inhabitants as are unworthy to dwell there, and to throw 
back the Turk on his haunches, and to clear out all the usurpers 
that occupy the territory of the kingdom of God proper. The 
goodness of God to his people in sending forth his angels to 
burn the tares is shown in a most wonderful degree. It will 
save his people from having to light for the possession of the 
land ; "for the Lord our God will go before them, and be their 
reward. Kings shall be their nursing fathers, and queens their 
nursing mothers, and the ships of Tarshish shall be the first to 
bring my people from afar," as an offering to the Lord. 

After the fire, the people of God will come from the east, and 
from the- west, and from the north, and from the south, and 
will possess the land, without money and without price. It is 
the Lord's land, and he will give it to his people in this most 
remarkable manner. Christ is not to come at the time of the 
burning of the tares, nor for some time after the people obtain 
possession of the land ; for they are to build up the old waste 
places and the former desolations, to a considerable extent at 
least, before they are invaded by those mighty armies that shall 
be as a cloud to cover the land in the latter days ; and Christ 
will not come until a battle with them has been going on for 
some time in the valley of Jehoshaphat. This battle is called 
the battle of Gog. 

Now, the burning of the tares is a portion of the judgment, 
and may properly be considered the beginning of the judgment- 
day, and the judgment-day will cover a period of about forty 
years. " According to the days of thy coming out of the land of 
Egypt will I show unto him marvellous things. The nations 
shall see and be confounded at all their might : they shall lay 
their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf. They 
shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their 
holes like worms of the earth : they shall be afraid of the Lord 
our God, and shall fear because of thee" (Micah vii, 15-17). 

The judgment-day is not for to try people that are dead, but 
it is for the living nations, kindreds, peoples and tongues ; it is 
for to make a complete overthrow of all things as they exist, 
and to make an end of the world. " Therefore, thou son of man, 
prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Be- 



THE JUDGMENT. 31 

hold, I am against thee, Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and 
Tubal : and I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part 
of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and 
will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel : and I will smite 
thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall 
out of thy right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of 
Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee : 
I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to 
the beasts of the field, to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon 
the open field ; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God " (Ezek. 
xxxix, 1-5). And as the Lord broke the bow of Israel in the 
valley of Jezreel, even so will he break the bow of all these 
nations of the earth in the valley of Jehoshaphat. "And it 
shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place 
there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the 
east of the sea ; and it shall stop the noses of the passengers ; 
and there shall they bury Gog, and all his multitude ; and they 
shall call it, The valley of Hamon-gog" (11). 

A host of mighty nations will be confederate against Jerusa- 
lem after they are brought back, in the latter days, — " Persia, 
Ethiopia and Libya with them; all of them with shield and hel- 
met : Gomer, and all of his bands ; the house of Togarmah of 
the north quarters, and all his bands ; and many people with 
thee " (Ezek. xxxviii, 5, 6). And it seems that they will be seven 
months burying the dead, and seven years burning the weapons 
of war for fuel for the city of Jerusalem. 

As the limits of this work will not permit me to narrate all 
the thrilling scenes of this great battle, I will simply invite 
reference to Ezekiel xxxviii and xxxix, Joel iii, Zechariah xiv, 
and Revelation xix, as containing the fullest description thereof 
that is needed. 

It seems that there will be some nations that will not take 
part in this warfare against the people of God ; they are rather 
represented as making sport of the others, by asking questions 
calculated to annoy them. " Sheba, and Dedan, and the mer- 
chants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say 
unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil ? hast thou gathered 
thy company to take a prey ? to carry away silver and gold, to 
take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?" (Ezek. 



32 JEZREEL. 

xxxviii, 13). It is very probable that the merchants of Tarshish 
and the young lions refer to England and her occupation of 
Egypt. But how gratifying to contemplate that we shall have 
some friends outside of the great conflict, that will rejoice at our 
success ! 

It is difficult to point out all of the nations that will come 
up as a cloud to cover the land, in the latter days, to fight against 
Jerusalem, which are to come as a storm ; neither does it matter 
to the inhabitants of Zion ; but it will matter very much to the 
parties who come up, for the Lord will fight for his people. 
" The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from 
Jerusalem ; and the heavens and the earth shall shake : but the 
Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the 
children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the Lord your 
God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain : then shall Jerusalem 
be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any 
more" (Joel iii, 16, 17). 

Gomer may mean the Catholic element, headed by Germany 
or Austria ; and the house of Togarmah of the north quarters 
may signify Russia, and most likely does. " I beheld till the 
thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose 
garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the 
pure wool : his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as 
burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before 
him : thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand 
times ten thousand stood before him : the judgment was set, and 
the books were opened" (Dan. vii, 9, 10). The small army is 
his own people, fighting for Zion ; and the great army are the 
invaders of the land. The Ancient of days is Christ, who comes 
at that time to judge the nations, and to cast them down. "I 
beheld then, because of the voice of the great words which the 
horn spake ; I beheld, even till the beast was slain, and his body 
destroyed, and given to the burning flame " (Dan. vii, 11). 

The horn here refers to the pope : he was to continue till the 
coming of Christ ; at which time the king that will be the leader 
in this last great battle, and the pope, will be burned in a fire, 
and their vast armies cut down with the sword, to become a prey 
for the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field, and to rot 
upon the open field. Yes, this is the judgment-day, or at least 



THE JUDGMENT. 33 

one of the acts in it. The judgment is to cover a space of forty 
years, before all the great achievements thereof are finished, and 
peace is forever established ; then wars will forever cease and 
the millennium will be ushered in. All nations will be called 
upon to come up to Jerusalem, both those that have fought 
against us and those that looked on at the unequal struggle of a 
small army fighting against mighty hosts imbued with the spirit 
of all evil pretensions and wickedness. All will then be required 
to come up to worship at Jerusalem, in God's holy temple, and 
to receive the laws and religion of the great God, who is all-wise 
and good, and will not ask the people to accept that which is not 
for their own peace and well-being and everlasting happiness. 

There is one thing that I wish to state distinctly to all na- 
tions, and that is, that the kingdom of God is not to be a belli- 
gerent nation, in the common acceptation of the word. God 
will devise means to spread his kingdom to earth's remotest 
bounds, but not by the sword. The proceeding may seem sim- 
ple, but it will be wonderfully effective, which is this, that if 
the nations refuse to come up, by representation, they shall have 
no rain. "And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all 
the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, 
the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. And if the 
family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain, 
there shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite the 
heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. This 
shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all 
nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles" 
(Zech. xiv, 17-19). 

Egypt could do without rain, but cannot do without the 
truth, and shall not escape the judgment if she refuses to 
come up. 

Elijah the Tishbite was a prophet of the Lord, of dry weather 
in the first place, and of fire in the second ; and the Elijah of 
these days is a prophet of fire in the first place, to burn up the 
tares, and of dry weather in the second, to compel nations to 
submit to the truth. " And the Gentiles shall see thy righteous- 
ness, and all kings thy glory : and thou shalt be called by a new 
name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. Thou shalt 
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34 JEZREEL. 

also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord., and a royal 
diadem in the hand of thy God" (Isa. lxii, 2, 3). 

It is quite evident that the end of the world is, not to destroy 
kings, nations and people out of the world, but to reform and 
reorganize them under a better covenant, and an everlasting 
covenant of peace and truth that shall not pass away. The 
judgment is necessary, and the coming of Christ, to accomplish 
this great work, and that is what the judgment is expressly for. 

The kingdom is to be set up all of a sudden, after the burn- 
ing of the tares ; as it is written, " Before she travailed, she 
brought forth ; before her pain came, she was delivered of a 
man child. Who hath heard such a thing ? who hath seen such 
things ? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or 
shall a nation be born at once ? for as soon as Zion travailed, she 
brought forth her children. Shall I bring to the birth, and not 
cause to bring forth ? saith the Lord : shall I cause to bring 
forth, and shut the womb ? saith thy God. Rejoice ye with 
Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her : rejoice 
for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her : that ye may suck, 
and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations ; that ye 
may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. 
For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like 
a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream : 
then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dan- 
dled upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforteth, so 
will I comfort you ; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. 
And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones 
shall flourish like an herb ; and the hand of the Lord shall be 
known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his 
enemies. For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with 
his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and 
his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his sword will 
the Lord plead with all flesh : and the slain of the Lord shall be 
many" (Isa. lxvi, 7-16). 

There is no truth in the teaching that the earth is ever to be 
destroyed ; neither is there any reason for believing that men 
and women will ever cease to exist on the earth ; neither is 
there ground for the notion, which is entertained by some, that 
this earth is to be the future heaven, the abode of celestial bodies. 



THE JUDGMENT. 35 

This earth is for man, now and for evermore. The only change 
that is to take place here is, that man and the earth are to be 
restored to the condition in which they were before the fall of 
Adam. This grand restitution is what I offer to one and all, on 
the authority of the word of God. Accept or reject it, as you 
will ; but do not forget that the loss, in the latter event, will be 
heavy — death, annihilation, extinction of all life, soul and body, 
and your ashes, perhaps, condemned to sing a requiem on some 
lonely shore for all time to come ; while those who accept the 
truth, and act up to it, are to live in this, or in other and brighter 
worlds, exploring and enjoying immortality and the beauties of 
those worlds for all time to come. "In my Father's house are 
many mansions." Why not accept of them ? The offer is good 
and kind ; why will any refuse it ? It is to be had without 
money, and without price. " Blessed are the meek, for they 
shall inherit the earth. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they 
shall see God." Yes, he is coming again to receive you to him- 
self, if you only accept the generous offer. 

It is the blindest folly to talk about the earth, and the kings 
of the earth, and the people, all being destroyed at the end of 
the world. The earth, and ail which is contained therein, only 
begin to be put in good shape after the end of the world. 
"And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the 
brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about, and 
see : all they gather themselves together, they come to thee : 
thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed 
at thy side. Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine 
heart shall fear, and be enlarged ; because the abundance of the 
sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall 
come unto thee" (Isa. lx, 3, 4, 5). How could the forces of 
the gentile kings and people come into the kingdom, if they 
were destroyed at the end of the world? The kings and queens 
of the earth are represented as bearing the people of God in 
their arms home to the kingdom. " Who are these that fly as 
a cloud, and as the doves to their windows ? Surely the isles 
shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy 
sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the 
name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, be- 
cause he hath glorified thee. And the sons of strangers shall 



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build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for 
in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on 
thee. Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall 
not be shut day nor night ; that men may bring unto thee the 
forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. 
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; 
yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. The glory of Leba- 
non shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the 
box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary ; and I will 
make the place of my feet glorious. The sons also of them 
that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they 
that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of 
thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The 
Zion of the Holy One of Israel. Whereas thou has been for- 
saken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make 
thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. Thou 
shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the 
breast of kings : and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy 
Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. For brass 
I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood 
brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, 
and thine exactors righteousness. Violence shall no more be 
heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders : 
but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. 
The sun shall be no more thy light by day ; neither for bright- 
ness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the Lord shall be 
unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun 
shall no more go down ; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: 
for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days. of thy 
mourning shall be ended. Thy people also shall be all righteous: 
they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, 
the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. A little one 
shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation : I 
the Lord will hasten it in his time" (Isa. Ix, 8-22). 

The sun, which represented the Jewish moral and political 
light, and the moon, which represents the gentile Christian 
world, will not really be needed when the kingdom is set up; 
for God will dwell with his people in the holy of holies in the 
temple, to instruct them in all things. 



THE JUDGMENT. 37 

The temple and the sacrifices are all to be restored; the 
priesthood also, in all its sacred order, and all the services of 
the temple. The gold, the silver and the brass, the box-tree, 
the fir-tree and the pine-tree, are all to be gathered to build this 
great temple for the worship of God. , 

God has a right to be worshiped in whatever way he sees n't 
to lay down ; and who is the man that will say that the sacrifices 
were forever done away when Christ came ? the man that does 
not believe the plain teaching of the Book. There is a cloud of 
thick darkness on the mind of the Christian world, which has 
been born of false teaching. " For, behold, the darkness shall 
cover the earth, and gross darkness the people : but the Lord 
shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee " 
(Isa. lx, 2). The gentile world is to come up to Zion, to the 
light that will shine as the sun. 

If the gentile Christian church taught all the truth, would 
the Lord bring it to an end ? not likely. The ministers speak 
great swelling words of vanity about mystic and spiritual in- 
terpretations, to which they claim to possess the key, as a kind 
of monopoly; and I consider it quite fair to judge them out of 
their own mouth, by asking, Why do you differ? Is it indeed 
the spirit of God which leads you in different directions ? 



CHAPTER VI. 

THE SAINTS AEE TO JUDGE THE WORLD. 

The judgment is a lengthy affair ; that is, considering it in 
the light of one day. The judgment is to last for about the 
space of forty years, and it may be said to begin at this present 
time, for the simple reason that the saints are to judge the world. 

In the first place, the saints are to judge whether David is a 
minister of truth to the people, or whether the ministers of the 
Christian churches preach the truth ; and, secondly, they are to 
judge and rule at Jerusalem, both as regards the administra- 
tion of law and by executing vengeance upon the heathen. The 
saints are called upon to investigate and see whether Elijah is a 
true prophet, or not, and whether his teaching is according to 
the scripture. If his teaching is true, and according to the 
bible, then the teaching of the Christian church is not the 
truth, nor according to the bible ; so he cordially invites an 
investigation of the whole matter. This honor hath the Lord 
conferred upon his saints, Ye are to judge the world. Both 
Jew and Gentile are to take part in this question. I am not 
offering one set of principles for the Jew and another for the 
Gentile, but one set for all the world. The saints are to judge 
upon this earth, and only upon this earth, so far, at least, as can 
be found revealed in the scriptures. There is no such judg- 
ment-day at all as the ministers of the Christian church teach. 
They teach that dead bodies shall be raised, and that the spirits 
of the just and the unjust shall be gathered together to stand 
for trial, whether they are fit for heaven or hell, after many of 
them have been in heaven or hell for thousands of years. Well, 
let us see how that looks. Will these wise teachers tell us how 
it is possible to get into heaven without being judged by the liv- 
ing God to be fit for it? Much less likely would a good and 
merciful God send poor souls to a hell of torment, such as the 
Christian church has invented for its own special purpose, if he 

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THE SAINTS ARE TO JUDGE THE WORLD. 39 

was not certain that he had dealt justly by them. Now, if God, 
according to his wisdom, has sent both good and bad to the right 
place, what is there then for the saints to judge? The answer 
is, nothing. Therefore there is no such judgment-day as the 
world has been pestered with for centuries by the Christian 
ministers. 

If man were called to judge who were fit for heaven and who 
were fit for hell, it would imply ignorance on God's part ; it 
would signify that he did not know who were the guilty and 
who the reverse, until he had gathered around him a few satel- 
lites of fallen, ignorant humanity to enlighted him. It is enough 
to make modest men and angels blush to think of such a judg- 
ment being trumped up, wherein the help of man is needed. 
God has appointed man to judge the world ; that is, while man 
is in the body ; but no man, or number of men, will ever be 
Called upon to judge the spirit ; that goes to God, and he alone 
can judge it aright. The saints shall judge the world, but not 
heaven, nor the inhabitants thereof ; at least, it is not revealed 
so in the bible, and I do not pretend to be wise above what is 
written. 

I will now put the matter to a fair test, and let the people 
judge who is the embassador, or embassadors, of God, and which 
of us teach the true interpretation of the bible. I proclaim that 
the fire and the burning of the tares will be local, and take place 
only in the land that was promised to Abraham and to his seed 
for ever ; and I have related, in a former chapter, what the fire 
is to accomplish. The Christian ministers teach that the gath- 
ering of the tares will be universal ; and as to showing what it 
refers to, they utterly fail, as far as I know, or perhaps anyone 
else. The ministers of the gospel are many, and I am alone; 
now, if their interpretations of the bible are true, let them call 
upon God to carry them out ; let them cry aloud, as they often 
do, and see if he will answer them ; and I will call upon God to 
answer according to the true interpretation of his word. And 
let the great event decide it, and all the people can judge who 
teaches the truth, and who does not. This is the one great 
event, by which the prophet like unto Moses was to prove his 
mission. "And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know 
the word which the Lord hath not spoken? When a prophet 



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speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor 
come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, 
but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously : thou shalt not 
be afraid of him" (Deut. xviii, 21, 22). 

The exact time of the fire is not given ; that is the thing 
which is to come upon the whole world as a snare. "For as in 
the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drink- 
ing, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe 
entered into the ark, and knew not, until the flood came, and took 
them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 
Then shall two be in the field ; the one shall be taken, and the 
other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one 
shall betaken, and the other left" (Matt, xxiv, 38-41). 

This gathering out is the burning of the tares, and is to be 
the sign of the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with 
power and great glory. " And then shall appear the sign of the 
Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth 
mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds 
of heaven, with power and great glory. And he shall send his 
angels with a great sound of a trumpet ; and they shall gather 
together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven 
to the other" (Matt, xxiv, 30, 31). 

This gathering of the people is the saints coming back to 
Zion. The angels are men, ministers, who will be doing all they 
can to preach the truth, and gather the people back to Jerusalem 
and the kingdom. 

Permit me to assure one and all that the burning of the tares 
is nigh even at the doors. This is the generation that is not 
to pass away till all be fulfilled ; the generation that Michael 
stands up in, and the generation that hears the everlasting gos- 
pel of the kingdom, and the generation that shall see the fire. 
" For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven ; and 
all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and 
the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, 
that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you 
that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with 
healing in his wings ; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as 
calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked ; for 
they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I 



THE SAINTS ARE TO JUDGE THE WORLD. 41 

shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts. Remember ye the law of 
Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horebfor all 
Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you 
Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful 
day of the Lord. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to 
the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I 
come and smite the earth with a curse" (Mai. iv). 

This great burning is to be only in the Holy Land ; and 
when the saints go back, the wicked will be ashes under their 
feet. And the lire is not to come until after the Lord sends you 
Elijah, for to announce it as a proof of his mission. The law of 
Moses is to rule the w r orld, with the statutes and judgments. 
The heart of the Jew is to be turned to the heart of the Chris- 
tian, and the heart of the Christian to that of the Jew ; and if 
both do not listen to the truth, the Lord will smite the earth 
with such a curse that they shall not be able to bear. The min- 
isters of the Christian church teach that the law of Moses was 
forever done away after Christ came. I announce that it was 
only set aside until the end of the world, or the end of the Gen- 
tile dispensation ; at which time it is all to be restored, without 
anything being left out. This doctrine will not suit the pope, 
neither will it suit the Protestant ministers ; but it suits the 
Lord Jesus Christ ; it suits Jehovah, the God of Abraham, and 
it will suit all his saints who will come and return to Zion ; and 
as for all who oppose it, God will judge. 

What folly to talk of transferring the judgment to some 
other planet, or sphere of life. It is here that we need it, to 
cast down antichrists, impostors, false teachers of all kinds, and 
to set up the kingdom of God, that is to fill the whole earth with 
its everlasting peace and justice. To both Jew and Gentile I 
say, you cannot ignore this question, nor afford to delay a full 
examination of the subject, if you do not want to suffer loss. 
This is the day of judgment, and no nation, nor church, nor 
people, shall escape, except those who shall accept the truth, and 
help to forward it for the great good of all. " For the nation 
and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish ; yea, those 
nations shall be utterly wasted" (Isa. lx, 12). This is the gen- 
eration that is to see all these things carried out : the burning 
of the tares ; the restoration of Israel, both Jew and Gentile 



42 JEZREEL. 

Christian, to the Holy Land ; the building of the second temple, 
and the coming of Christ into his temple through the east gate. 
Christ is coming there to meet his people in person ; they shall 
see his face and talk with him, and he shall drink the cup of 
wine with them. The saints from heaven are also to be there 
with Christ, as guests to the marriage of the Lamb. Christ and 
the saints will then return to heaven ; but the Shekinah or the 
presence of God, will dwell in the holy of holies in the temple, 
to teach his people Israel the life, the truth and the way, and to 
give a direct answer on all important subjects which are too hard 
for the people to understand. 

Christ and the saints are coming personally at the great bat- 
tle of Gog ; but they all go back again. Only the presence of 
Christ the Jehovah remains. All things are to be restored to 
what they were, only on a grander scale, and to extend to the 
uttermost bounds of the earth ; and this renovated kingdom 
" shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down, any more for ever " 
(Jer. xxxi, 40). 



CHAPTER VTT. 



A WHITE HORSE. 



This white horse is the steed that David, the prince of 
Ephraim, will ride at the great battle of Gog, in the valley of 
Jehoshaphat. The valley lies north of Jerusalem, and comes up 
to the city pretty much on a level, and is the only easy way for 
an invading army to approach it. 

" And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse ; and 
he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in right- 
eousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame 
of fire, and on his head were many crowns ; and he had a name 
written, that no man knew but he himself. And he was clothed 
with a vesture dipped in blood : and his name is called The 
Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed 
him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. 
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he 
should smite the nations : and he shall rule them with a rod of 
iron : and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath 
of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his 
thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. And 
I saw an angel standing in the sun ; and he cried with a loud 
voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, 
Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the 
great God ; that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of 
captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, 
and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both 
free and bond, both small and great. And I saw the beast, and 
the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to 
make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his 
army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false pro- 
phet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived 
them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that 
worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of 

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44 JEZREEL. 

fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with 
the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded 
out of his mouth: all the fowls were filled with their flesh " 
(Rev. xix, 11-21). 

There are only a few explanations required to make this 
battle quite intelligible, and easy to be understood. The heaven 
here spoken of is the kingdom at Jerusalem. It is called heaven 
because it is the head or highest nation, in contradistinction to 
lower kingdoms. The white horse is literally the horse that 
David will sit upon ; and his name, being called The Word of 
God, could be nothing else, because that is what it is ; for in- 
stance, David, Michael, Elijah, one like the Son of man, and so 
on. Only his name is The Word of God, not himself. Christ is the 
Word, and the Word was God ; but the one who sits upon the 
horse is named The Word of God, because his name is a part 
of it. And his having a name written that no man knew but 
himself, shows that he only will find it out, or understand it, 
know it. The sword going out of his mouth is the word of 
command while sitting on his horse, Cut them down, destroy 
them, give them no quarter. The winepress refers to the valley 
of the great slaughter, where the blood is to be spattered to the 
horse-bridles. And as to his being called King of Kings, this 
shows that David and his kingdom is the head of the kings of 
the earth, and that Jerusalem will be no longer tributary to the 
nations. The beast and the false prophet being thrown into a 
lake of fire burning with brimstone will be literally carried out 
at the time. The king that will be leader in the army of Gog, 
and also the pope, will be captured, and a fire will be built and 
they will be thrown in. And the army will be literally cut 
down with the sword of David and of his people. 

The battle of Gog and the battle Armageddon is not one 
and the same battle. The battle of Armageddon was fought 
between France and Prussia, at the time that the Napoleon 
dynasty was overthrown, and after which Michael was to stand 
up. The time has now come, and Michael stands up ; and this 
is the time that the people shall be delivered, the set time has 
come. 

The battle mentioned in Revelation xix is the same as that 
described in Ezekiel xxxviii, xxxix ; Joel iii, and Zechariah xiv. 



a white horse. 45 

This great battle of Gog is the one in which the Lord will rain 
down upon his enemies great hailstones, fire and brimstone, and 
an horrible tempest. This is the battle in which the Lord w r ill 
cause those of their own army to fight one against the other, and 
will curse them, so that "their flesh shall consume away while 
they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in 
their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. 
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from 
the Lord shall be among them ; and they shall lay hold every 
one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up 
against the hand of his neighbor. And Judah also shall fight at 
Jerusalem ; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall 
be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great 
abundance" (Zech. xiv, 12-14). 

Christ comes on the Mount of Olives while this great battle 
is being fought. He is to come on the day, which shall not be 
clear nor dark ; that will be a signal unto his people that they 
are surely to expect him and all the saints that very day. "And 
it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, 
nor dark: but it shall be one day, which shall be known to the 
Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at even- 
ing time it shall be light" (Zech. xiv, G, 7). So let no man tell 
us from henceforth that we clo not know when Christ is coming. 
"And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, 
which is before Jerusalem on the east ; and the Mount of Olives 
shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the 
west, and there shall be a very great valley: and half of the 
mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward 
the south. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains ; for 
the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall 
flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of 
Uzziah, king of Judah ; and the Lord my God shall come, and 
all the saints with thee" (Zech. xiv, 4, 5). 

Christ and the saints will undoubtedly come on that day, 
which shall not be clear, nor dark ; and Christ is to work, on 
that day, the most notable miracles that he ever wrought for the 
deliverance of his people, and for the benefit of man in general. 
"And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from 
Jerusalem ; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them 



46 JEZREEL. 

toward the hinder sea : in summer and in winter shall it be. 
And the Lord shall be king over all the earth : in that day shall 
there be one Lord, and his name one" (Zech. xlv, 8, 9). Day of 
wonders indeed ! That day will satisfy to convince the Jews 
that Christ is God ; and that day will satisfy the Christians that 
God is Christ. No more Trinity after that day. In that day 
the Lord will fight for his people ; in that day the Lord will 
divide asunder the Mount of Olives with an earthquake, and 
cause the river of life to flow out from under the temple on 
Mount Moriah, and half of it to flow toward the former (or Dead) 
sea, and half toward the hinder (or Mediterranean) sea : in sum- 
mer and in winter shall it be, or run, for evermore. The tree of 
life, also, on either side of this beautiful river, and the leaves of 
the tree, are for the healing of the nations. Man is, in due 
time, to be restored to his original state of innocence and purity, 
and his life is to continue as the days of a tree ; and the tree of 
life is to be instrumental in the process of restoration. 

All these things, and much more, is to be done when Christ 
comes, " on that day," when the mighty conflict of the last great 
battle is trembling in the very heavens. 

Come Jew, come Christian, let us be brothers ; let us meet 
on one common platform of- truth and peace. The heir of Joseph 
will do all he can for you. Joseph wept over his brethren in 
the land of Pharao, but the next time we all meet, we shall weep 
with joy and gladness of heart, for all the good things that the 
Lord hath procured unto us. Josejm is coming from heaven, 
with Abraham and the prophets, David, Solomon and Moses, 
and all the saints and martyrs, to meet the people of God upon 
earth, and to view the final overthrow of antichrist, and of all 
things that oppose the will of God. Come, then, and let us join 
in a perpetual covenant that shall not be broken off. " Awake, 
awake ; put on thy strength, O Zion ; put on thy beautiful gar- 
ments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no 
more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean " (Isa. 
lii, 1). "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him 
that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace ; that bringeth 
good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation ; that saith unto 
Zion, Thy God reigneth ! Thy watchmen shall lift up the 
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A WHITE HORSE. 47 

see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion. Break 
forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem : for 
the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusa- 
lem" (V, 8, 9). "For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by 
flight : for the Lord will go before you ; and the God of Israel 
will be your rereward" (12). 

"How beautiful upon the mountains ! " These are the glad 
tidings of the restitution of all things, that David will proclaim 
to the world. They shall not return in haste, nor by night ; for 
kings and queens shall bring them as an offering to the Lord, to 
his holy mountain, Jerusalem. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 



The garden of Eden is to be the kingdom of God proper. 
The territory of the garden of Eden is all that will be given or 
divided among the people of God, without money or price. 

We do not propose to set ourselves up as a kingdom of rob- 
bers ; we want nothing but what is our own, and that we insist 
upon having. The nations of the earth will naturally want to 
know what Ave have set out to do, before they will stretch forth 
their hand to help us to forward the great restitution of God's 
people and kingdom. We purpose to claim all the land from 
the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates, bounded by the 
Mediterranean sea on the west, and as far east as the proper 
boundary may be. We claim this for the Lord and for his 
people. It is the Lord's land, and he has sworn by an oath 
to give it to Abraham and to his seed for ever; and whosoever 
will accept the faith and doctrine of the prophet like unto Moses 
shall dwell therein, and whosoever shall not accept the same 
shall be cut off or driven out of that land. "And the Lord 
God planted a garden eastward in Eden ; and there he put the 
man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the 
Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and 
good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, 
and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went 
out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, 
and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison : 
that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where 
there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdel- 
lium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river 
is Gihon : the same is it that compasseth the whole land of 
Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel : that 
is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth 
river is Euphrates" (Gen. ii, 8-14). Eden means the earth, and 

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THE GAKDEN OF EDEN. !'•> 

the garden of Eden is the Holy Land; and the tree of life was 
planted in the midst of the garden, which was at Jerusalem ; 
and a river went out of Eden, or the earth, to water the garden; 
that is, a great fountain of water rose up out of the earth in the 
garden of Eden, which is the Holy Land; and from thence it was 
parted, and became into four heads, which flowed over and out 
of the garden to water it. The name of the first of the four 
liea ds is Pi son. This river had its fountain head on Mount 
Moriah. It rose up from under where the temple afterward 
stood, and flowed down into the desert and into where the Dead 
sea now is ; it joined the Jordan, or, as it is called in Genesis, 
Gihon, and, after traversing the land of Havilah, fell into the 
Red sea. "And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until 
thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt " (1 Sam. xv, 7). 
The second river is the Jordan. It compassed the whole land of 
Ethiopia, or where the Canaanites lived. The third is most 
likely the Orontes. The fourth is Euphrates. These four rivers 
flowed out of the garden, which is the Holy Land, as well as 
through the garden, to water it. The river Pison is the one to 
which attention is particularly directed. It flowed through the 
land of Havilah, where there is gold, and the gold of that land 
is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone. If the people in 
the early ages did not find this mine of gold and precious stones, 
they are still there waiting to be dug up by God's people after 
their return; and there is an indication that they are there await- 
ing the final return of his people, for it is said of one of the 
tribes that are to settle there, that they are to suck of the abun- 
dance of the sea, and of treasures hid in the sand, probably 
somewhere down through Arabia Petrsea, or toward Mount 
Sinai. 

Now the question is, how do we know that the river Pison 
flowed out from Mount Moriah? From the simple fact that the 
same river is to flow out from the same place on the advent of 
Christ at Jerusalem, and from the fact, also, that the tree of life 
is to be restored as well as the river. There are to be very many 
trees growing on either side of the river. 

The prophet, speaking of the day when Christ is to descend 
on the Mount of Olives, says, "And it shall be in that day, that 
living waters shall go out from Jerusalem ; half of them toward 



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the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea : in sum- 
mer and in winter shall it be " (Zech. xiv, 8). The former sea is 
the Dead sea, and the hinder sea the Mediterranean. This river 
is to be brought forth on the day when Christ is to come, and 
we can point out with accuracy the place that it is to take its rise 
from: this river is to rise from under the temple at Jerusalem, 
at the south side of the altar. " Afterward he brought me again 
unto the door of the house ; and, behold, waters issued out from 
under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of 
the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down 
from under, from the right side of the house, at the south side 
of the altar. Then brought he me out of the way of the gate 
northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter 
gate by the way that looketh eastward ; and, behold, there ran 
out waters on the right side. And when the man that had the 
line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand 
cubits, and he brought me through the waters ; the waters were 
to the ancles. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me 
through the waters ; the waters were to the knees. Again he- 
measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to 
the loins. Afterward he measured a thousand ; and it was a river 
that I could not pass over : for the waters were risen, waters to 
swim in, a river that could not be passed over. And he said unto 
me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and 
caused me to return to the brink of the river. Now when I had 
returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees 
on the one side and on the other. Then said he unto me, These 
waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the 
desert, and go into the sea : which being brought forth into the 
sea, the waters shall be healed. And it shall come to pass, that 
every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers 
shall come, shall live : and there shall be a very great multitude 
of fish, because these waters shall come thither : for they shall 
be healed ; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. 
And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it 
from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim : they shall be a place to 
spread forth nets ; their fish shall be according to their kinds as 
the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. But the miry places 
thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall 



THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 51 

be given to salt. And by the river upon the bank thereof, on 
this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose 
leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed : 
it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because 
their waters they issued out of the sanctuary ; and the fruit 
thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine" 
(Ezek. xlvii, 1-12). 

I have quoted at length the whole passage in Ezekiel refer- 
ring to the river and the tree of life, because it is a volume in 
itself. It tells us that the river is to come out from under the 
sanctuary, and flow down into the desert and into the Dead sea ; 
which being brought forth, the waters of the Dead sea shall be 
healed. And it is very easy to understand how this shall be 
accomplished : by the waters of the river of life flowing into the 
Dead sea, it will fill it up, until the salt waters of the Dead sea 
will rise and flow down its old river-bed, and into the Red sea ; 
and the Dead sea will become a grand fresh-water lake, so that 
fish can live in it. And the fishers shall stand upon it from 
En-gedi, at the foot of it, to En-eglaim at the head of the Dead 
sea, and spread forth their nets. This river of life, in union 
with the Jordan, will fill up the basin so that it will flow on in 
its ancient channel. This river and tree of life is the same as 
that spoken of in Revelation. It is to flow out of the throne of 
God; and at that time Jerusalem is called the throne of God. 
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, 
proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the 
midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was 
there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and 
yielded her fruit every month : and the leaves of the tree were 
for the healing of the nations" (Rev. xxii, 1, 2). This fruit of 
the tree of life is to be the great elixir of life and health to man, 
that is, in connection with the leaf of the tree, which is to be for 
medicine to the nations. The .psalmist David speaks of this 
river: "There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad 
the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most 
High " (Ps. xlvi, 4). The Lord will restore this beautiful river 
at the restitution of all things; at his coming to restore his 
kingdom, nothing of all this shall fail to come to pass. This 
river shall run both ways from the sanctuary ; one half toward 



52 JEZREEL. 

the Dead sea, and the other half toward the Mediterranean ; and 
there is no doubt that in due time the highway from the Medi- 
terranean to the Red ■ sea will be past Jerusalem, instead of 
through the Suez canal. The waters from the river of life will 
be used to feed a canal for the use of shipping. No gallant ship 
with oars shall pass by Jerusalem, that is, no government cutter, 
to collect taxes, nor any war-vessel. War is to come to an end, 
and trade and commerce will take its place. 

All these great schemes are worthy of their designer, which 
is God. I have simply pointed out what the scriptures and rea- 
son teach. It is no cunningly devised fable, and I am not 
ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is all too grand, and 
too good for the benefit of the world, to be ashamed of. 



CHAPTER IX. 



ONE FROM THE NORTH. 



"I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come ; 
from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name ; and he 
shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter 
treadeth clay. 

" The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them : and I will 
give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings." — Isa. 
xli, 25, 27. 

Here is one spoken of that is to come from the north ; that is 
to come upon princes, and fashion them according to his will. 
He must come from northern Europe, or North America, or some 
northern nation, in order to fulfill prophecy. The Lord has de- 
cided that there is not a man among the regular Jewish church, 
nor a man among the regular members of any of the Christian 
churches, that understand. The Lord has to go outside of all 
these and hunt up a man that will understand. " For I beheld, 
and there was no man ; even among them, and there was no 
counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word " 
(Isa. xli, 28). 

The Jews have their Talmudic writings, and their ministers 
that teach the people error ; and they are expert at worshiping 
the gods of their fathers that led them astray. And the Chris- 
tians are noted for their idols and their gods. They have Origen, 
one of the early fathers, who started the theory of spiritualizing 
the word of God, which makes it mean nothing. They have 
Wesley, and Luther, and Calvin, and John Knox, and a host of 
others, and all the great army of ministers of the present day, 
following faithfully in the footsteps of error ; and their teach- 
ing makes the word of God of none effect. Peter said that the 
kingdom was not to be set uj) until the coming of Christ : the 
pope says that Rome and himself are at the head of it. Peter 
and the pope do not agree ; but little the pope cares, as long as 

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54 JEZREEL. 

he can get Peter's-pence, and get the people to worship himself. 
The Protestants, taking their cue from the pope, say that the 
kingdom of God is in their heart. I should say that it is rather 
a small space in which to set up a kingdom ; and, if such were 
the case, there would be a good many kingdoms. The scribes 
and Pharisees sent to Christ to ascertain when the kingdom of 
God should appear, and Christ told them that the kingdom of 
God was within them, or among them. That was literally true, 
for the Jewish kingdom was the kingdom of God. The sceptre 
did not depart from Judah until Christ came. 

The Jewish and Christian churches are very properly de- 
scribed in the following language : " Who is blind, but my ser- 
vant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? Who is blind as 
he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant?" (Isa. xlii, 
19). We hear a great deal about perfection in these days; and 
yet they who proclaim it the loudest are so blind that they do 
not know the first principles of perfection, much less do they 
endeavor to carry them out. Perfection, in the first place, con- 
sists in knowing the principles of truth, and, in the second place, 
in carrying them out. Do the Jew and the Christian know the 
truth? and is the kingdom of God indeed in their hearts? If so, 
why do they not have a time of peace? How can they escape 
the judgment? They shall not escape, except by getting out of 
the church that they belong to and hunting for the pearl of great 
price, the truth. Who ever heard of a church reforming itself, 
or of being reformed by those belonging to it? There is not an 
instance of it in all history. 

There is a community in the Christian church called Quakers, 
and they are very sure that the kingdom of God is in their heart. 
Well, let us see how peaceable they are. They have advocated 
principles of abolitionism for centuries, which is in direct re- 
bellion against the bible, the word of God ; and they joined 
hands with infidels in spreading that spawn of iniquity through- 
out the land, and urged on the principles that culminated in a 
bloody war in the United States of America. And what did 
these peaceable people do? They put on a broadbrimmed hat 
and looked coolly on while the poor man of more principle was 
willing to fight for his faith, even though it were a wrong 
faith. Let not the Quakers, more than others who hold to wrong 



ON!-: FROM THE NORTH. 55 

principles, think they shall escape the judgment, unless they cut 
themselves loose from such a church. The Ethiopian might as 
well attempt to change his skin, or the leopard his spots, as for 
any reasonable being to expect a reformation to be effected from 
within a church. "And now we call the proud happy; yea, 
they that work wickedness are set up ; yea, they that tempt God 
are even delivered" (Mai. iii, 15). Such is the case at the pres- 
ent day ; and the only way to escape the judgment, shame and 
contempt, of God and his people, is to dissever connection with 
any and every Christian church, and join hands with those who 
are willing to believe the truth, preparatory to returning to 
Zion. " Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to 
another ; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of 
remembrance was written before him for them that feared the 
Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, 
saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels ; 
and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth 
him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous 
and the wicked ; between him that serveth God, and him that 
serveth him not" (Mai. iii, 16-18). 

All that elect to return to Zion, all that elect to believe the 
truth, let them get books and write their name therein, so that 
there may be order in the great ingathering to the kingdom. 
All that love these things, let them meet often to discuss them, 
and see whether they be true. " Remember ye the law of Moses 
my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, 
with the statutes and judgments " (Mai. iv, 4). Do not forget 
that it is the law of Moses that will rule the world, with the 
statutes and judgments : and at the same time, do not forget 
that the ministers of the Christian churches teach that they were 
forever done away when Christ came. " Behold, I will send you 
Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful 
day of the Lord : and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to 
the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I 
come and smite the earth with a curse" (5, G). 

Let all the people remember that the Lord rules in the 
heavens, and that he is corning to rule on the earth, and that his 
laws and statutes will rule above all. "Thou shalt arise, and 
have mercy upon Zion : for the time to favor her, yea. the set 



56 JEZREEL. 

time, is come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and 
favor the dust thereof. So the heathen shall fear the name of 
the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. When the 
Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory " (Ps. cii, 
13-16). 

The Jews will never come into the Christian churches. Why 
should they ? There is nothing enticing in the filthy garments 
of error, that they should adopt them. The Jews have enough, 
and too much, error of their own to be desirous of adding more 
to it. The Christian church has rejected the Sabbath of the 
Lord, and has set up a Sabbath of her own. Remember, both 
Jew and Christian, that not for your sake will the Lord do this 
great work, but for his own holy name's sake will he save his 
people, and plant them in their own land at Jerusalem ; and one 
king shall be king to them all, neither shall they be divided into 
two kingdoms any more at all. The Lord hath pity on his 
people because their teachers lead them astray ; and he will save 
his people out of the hands of the idle shepherds, who feed them- 
selves and not the flock ; and he will make his people a blessing 
in the land, and feed them upon the high mountains of Israel, 
the remnant that will return. "And the remnant of Jacob shall 
be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people, as a iion 
among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks 
of sheep ; who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and tear- 
eth in pieces, and none can deliver" (Micah v, 8). 

The judgment is prolonged and varied, for at least the space 
of forty years ; and it is a day of rebuke, and overthrow, and 
destruction, for the wicked : and after the judgment, then the 
nations shall come up for to worship the Lord of hosts, and to 
keep the feast of tabernacles. " Yea, many people and strong 
nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and 
to pray before the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, In those 
days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold, out of 
all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of 
him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you ; for we have 
heard that God is with you" (Zech. viii, 22, 23). "And in that 
day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will 
eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel ; only let us be 
called by thy name, to take away our reproach. In that day 



ONE FBOM THE NORTH. 57 

shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the 
fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that 
are escaped of Israel" (Isa. iv, 1, 2). 

Judah shall be saved first, that the glory of the house of 
David shall not boast over Judah. Ephraim shall not vex Judah, 
and Judah shall not vex Ephraim ; that is, the Christians shall 
not vex the Jews, nor the Jews the Christians ; for they shall all 
meet on the level ground of peace and truth, and shall dwell 
together in unity for evermore. " Israel then shall dwell in 
safety alone : the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn 
and wine ; also his heavens shall drop down dew" (Deut. xxxiii, 
28). The blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave to Joseph 
and his brethren shall then be their portion forever ; and Joseph 
shall have two portions, Ephraim and Manasseh. " Moses com- 
manded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of 
Jacob. And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the 
people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together" (4, 5). 

This is that same Moses that told his people that they should 
be scattered until seven times passed over them ; and the same 
Moses that said the Lord would raise them up a prophet like 
unto himself, in the latter days, and that they shall hear him. 
He is to come from a north country, and teach the truth, and 
prepare the people for the coming of the great God, and for the 
judgment. This generation shall not pass away till all be ful- 
filled. 



CHAPTER X. 



ONE GOD. 



Fiest and foremost, and above all other tenets of theology, 
that there is but one God must be believed by both Jew and 
Christian. Who is this God, and what is he? Is he a spirit or 
is he a person, that is, having a body as well as a spirit? or is he 
two or three spirits, having no body? 

My task is easy enough, which is, to teach what is revealed 
in the bible concerning God. 

We know that man has a body, and we believe that man has 
a spirit, or is a spirit, and that this spirit can and does live after 
the body is dead ; that the spirits of the good go to God, and get 
a new body out of the material of the planet or world which they 
go to, and that those of the wicked reserved here on earth go to 
the judgment, that is to take place at the end of the millennium. 
This judgment is not to try these spirits, whether they are 
guilty or not, but to destroy them, to take away all conscious 
existence ; they shall be as though they had not been. 

Is there anything on earth, that we are acquainted with, that 
is like God? Certainly there is. " So God created man in his 
own image, in the image of God created he him ; male and 
female created he them" (Gen. i, 27). The AVord says that in 
man we have a facsimile of God, a likeness, a miniature picture 
of the great I Am. I am not called upon to explain what the 
spirit of God is ; neither am I required to declare what the spirit 
of man is. I could explain the one as easily as I could the other, 
and I cannot do either ; neither can any man. I am simply 
called upon to show what is revealed in the bible, in respect to 
who God is, and what he is. It is revealed in the scriptures that 
God has a body, or is a body, and that he is a spirit ; for it is 
written that " God is a spirit." Therefore I believe it, for that 
and other reasons. I also believe that God is a body, or has a 
body, for the reason that we have more proof that he has a body 

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ONE GOD. 59 

than we have that he has a spirit. No man hath seen the spirit 
of God at any time, but his body has been seen, on the best of 
bible testimony. Moses talked with God, even saw the simili- 
tude of God. " Moses and seventy of the elders of Israel saw 
the God of heaven, and under his feet as it were a paved work : 
and upon the nobles of Israel he laid not his hand." Moses saw 
him face to face, and saw the similitude. His hands and his feet 
arc spoken of ; and Daniel tells us that the hair of his head was 
like the pure wool. Elijah saw his hinder parts at Mount Sinai. 
And the Lord and two angels from heaven did eat part of Abra- 
ham's calf and Sarah's cakes ; and God and the angels looked so 
much like men that Abraham thought they were men (see Gen. 
xviii); and he talked with Abraham, and he talked with Adam 
and Eve in the garden, and he wrestled with Jacob. Now, all 
this goes to prove that he made man in his own image and like- 
ness. There would be more sound logic in rejecting all evidence 
of the spirit of God than in rejecting that of his body. Why 
is it that people will obstinately pretend to believe the mys- 
terious, and refuse to give credence to plain facts which are 
supported by the most indubitable testimony? Moses asked 
God to show him his glory, that is, to let him see the spirit, 
and the glory thereof ; and God told him that man could not 
see his face and live ; by which he meant that Moses could 
not see the face of the spirit. Moses did see the face of the 
body. If God made man like unto himself, then he must have a 
body, for man has a body. The truth is simply summed up. 
God has a body, a celestial body of flesh and bone ; for it seems 
that blood cannot enter into heaven : and he has a spirit that 
dwells in that body, evidently in the same manner that the spirit 
of man dwells in his body : and as the spirit of man and his 
body make one human person, even so does the body and the 
spirit of the Creator make one only and true God, one divine 
person. And the Jew or Christian who imagines that he has 
discovered any other than this God of Abraham is mistaken : 
there is no other God but one, and never can be any other. 
"There was no God before me, neither shall there be any God 
after me." Now, this is the God that both Jew and Christian 
mast implicitly believe in, simply because he is the only true 
God : all other Gods are false, no Gods. 



60 JEZREEL. 

Now, I will try and put this question in the plainest manner 
before both Jew and Christian. Jehovah of the Old Testament 
is Jesus Christ of the New. The Jews will scarcely accept 
Jesus Christ, at the present time, as the God of Abraham ; for it 
seems that they are not to believe it until he comes in the clouds 
of heaven with power and great glory, on which occasion we read 
of them repenting. Christ is really coming to convince the 
Jews that he is the only and true God, and to convince the 
Christians also of the same fact. His coming is the marriage of 
the Lamb to his church, and the marriage is the judgment. We 
find that when Christ comes he will have some parties put out 
for not having on the wedding-garment. He is coming to set 
his own people right first, and the world next ; and people who 
can spare time to find out the truth before his advent will be the 
gainers, in a large degree. 

Now, if both Jew and Christian will allow me, I will point 
out and prove that Christ is the very and eternal Father, the 
Jehovah, the one only and true God. It is to be hoped that 
Christians will allow the New Testament as well as the Old, 
even if the Jews do not, to bear testimony in this important 
matter. " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word' was 
with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the begin- 
ning with God. All things were made by him ; and without 
him was not anything made that was made" (John i, 1-3). John 
is speaking of Christ, and plainly asserts that he is God ; and he 
further says that " He was in the world, and the world was made 
by him, and the world knew him not " (10). According to the 
testimony, Christ was the Word, and the Word was God. Now, 
if there is but one God, then Christ must be that God. If he is 
not, the testimony is not true. John further states that the 
Word was made flesh. " And the Word was made flesh, and 
dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the 
only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth " (14). 
John's testimony is this, that the 'Word was God, and that the 
Word was made flesh ; not that he dwelt in the flesh, but that 
he was made flesh ; that is, the flesh or body of Christ that 
lived on earth existed previous to his incarnation, and it was 
God. 

The solution of this inquiry is this, that the body which God 



ONE GOD. 61 

had previous to the incarnation was, by that mysterious opera- 
tion, changed into a human body of flesh and blood, to the end 
that it should be offered as a sacrifice for the salvation of man. 
God, having a body of flesh and bone, a celestial body, previous 
to his coming, took his own body and made it into a body of 
flesh and blood and bone, and dwelt on earth, in the world which 
he himself had made. 

One of the prophets, speaking of the coming of Christ, puts 
it in the following language : " Unto us a child is born, unto us 
a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder ; 
and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." 
And when Christ was crucified, and the Roman spear pierced 
his side and his blood was poured out, all that was human might 
be said to have left his body. That same body Christ took to 
heaven, as it is written, " No man hath ascended up to heaven, 
but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which 
is in heaven " ; that is, no body that had ever been flesh, blood 
and bone ever went, or ever will go, to heaven but the body of 
Christ ; and that was because the body of Christ was the bod} r 
of God, which came down from heaven. 

Christ claimed to be one with the father, and told Philip that 
he was the father ; and if it is a bible truth that there is but one 
God, then Christ must be that God. 

Jehovah of the Old Testament is Jesus Christ of the New, 
the one only and true God, one person : the one Being that made 
all things must be God. And it is on the authority of the great 
God himself that there was no God before him, neither shall 
there be any after him. If Christ is not God, Christians are the 
worst imposed upon of any people that ever existed ; and they 
are equally so if there is any God besides Christ. 

Christ made all things. What, then, remained for any other 
God to do in the work of Creation? Nothing. No Jewish 
Pharisee ever invented a more hair-splitting or more degrading 
sophistry than the Trinity. We are asked to lay aside every 
principle of reason. We are called upon to believe that three 
are one. We are entreated to disregard every instinct of man- 
hood, and become a blind dolt of superstition. How has any 
man, or set of men, the assurance to ask us to believe that three 



62 JEZEEEL. 

are one? Is such a teacher a fool, or is it that other people are 
taken for fools? Must we believe a lie or go to hell? There is 
not a Jew or Christian on earth who intelligently believes that 
three are one. Why, then, do the Christian ministers exhort us 
to believe it? They tell us that the dogma is a mystery, but 
such is not the case, for anything must be true in order that it 
can be a mystery ; and if it is a mystery, how do they know it 
to be true, especially when the bible nowhere says that there are 
three persons in one God. The Trinity exists only in the minds 
and creeds of a corrupt church ; and it is for such corruptions, 
and other high crimes and misdemeanors, that this corrupt 
church is to be brought to an end. Christ is coming to settle 
the whole question, and at his coming he is called the Lord my 
God, and I wonder where the Christians will find the other two? 
And God and the saints are coming with bodies, what think ye? 
His feet shall stand, in that day, upon the Mount of Olives. The 
God of the Christians will have no feet ; how, then, will his feet 
stand on the mount? This theory is equal to that of the Trinity. 
How can his feet stand on the mount, when he has none ! 

I once had the misfortune to listen to a Methodist minister of 
the highest standing in the church, ridiculing his God in the 
following language. Said he, Some people believe that God 
has a nose, some that he has ears. Now, just think of it. Will 
Christ be without a nose and without ears when he comes on the 
Mount of Olives, or has he none at present? The Methodist 
minister was no worse than the great mass of ministers of all 
churches. There are exceptions. They all teach that God is 
everywhere the same, and at the same time they beseech him to 
come down into their midst. If God is everywhere the same, 
how then is he to come on the Mount of Olives? He could 
neither come nor go ; he would be stationary, immovable. I am 
sorry that the errors of the church compel me to hold her up to 
ridicule, but yet I am not sorry to do it. I am not sent unto the 
false teachers to flatter them, but to expose the whole plot, for 
they have joined in a conspiracy against God, and against his 
word, and against his kingdom. They claim that they are the 
kingdom of God, and that there is no better kingdom to be 
looked for. May the good Lord deliver all his people from such 
errors ! I will say for myself that here I have no abiding city, 



ONE GOD. 63 

but I seek one to come ; and what I say for myself I will say for 
thousands and for millions of other good people, that love the 
truth and will accept it, work for it, suffer for it, live for it, and, 
if need be, die for it. How many are talking of peace conven- 
tions, and of peace, and meanwhile they are spreading broadcast 
the seeds of principles which culminate in strife and bloodshed. 
The Lord says that there shall be war until he come : the church 
says there will be peace before he come. If there shall be peace 
before the coming of the Saviour, then the Lord hath not spoken 
by me ; then the people will know who preaches the truth, and 
those who preach it not. The ministers are crying, Peace, 
peace, and there is no peace, neither shall there be peace until 
he come. 

There are just two ways of coming down from the high seat 
of error, both for Jew and Christian, namely, by a timely repent- 
ance and the acceptance of truth, and by the judgment. All can 
choose whether they shall now awake to everlasting life or to 
eternal shame and contempt. " And they that be wise shall 
shine as the brightness of the firmament ; and they that turn 
many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." 



CHAPTER XI. 



POLYGAMY. 



There are two great questions that affect society, for good 
or for evil, perhaps more than all others, namely, how to regu- 
late labor and capital, and how to properly regulate the law of 
marriage ; and it is the latter that I propose to examine and 
discuss first. 

Both Jew and Christian will, or should, prefer the law of 
God, as revealed in the bible, on this momentous topic. 

The great question now before us is, Is polygamy right, or 
is it wrong? Is it good, or is it bad? Has God ever sanctioned 
the institution as holy and good, or did he ever denounce it, or 
condemn it? My opinion, or the opinion of the whole Jewish 
and Christian world, will amount to nothing, only as such opin- 
ions are in accordance with the will of God, as we find it record- 
ed in the scriptures. 

I have hunted all through the Old and New Testaments care- 
fully, to find the place where God condemns a man or a woman 
for practicing polygamy, and I have not found it ; I cannot find 
it ; and furthermore I assert that no man can find it. On the 
other hand, has God ever countenanced the man or the woman 
who practiced it? Has he ever called such people his own pecu- 
liar people; beloved of the Lord ; people after his own heart? 
He has indeed done so. God has sanctioned polygamy, and 
bestowed upon women the honorable and holy name of wife, 
equally from one to seven hundred, one and all of them having 
the undoubted right to that sacred distinction. God says that a 
woman is a wife, whether she is the first, second, third, fourth, 
fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, tenth, or the seven hundredth. God 
has legislated, in one particular instance, between two wives, 
regarding them as equals, and as deserving of equal treatment, 
according to his holy law. " If a man have two wives, one be- 
loved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both 

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the beloved and the hated ; and if the firstborn son be her's that 
was hated : then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit 
that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved 
firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the first- 
born : but he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the 
firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath : 
for he is the beginning of his strength ; the right of the firstborn 
is his" (Deut. xxi, 15-17). This practically settles the whole 
question of polygamy, and proves it to be strictly in consonance 
with the will of God ; because he orders the two wives to be 
treated as on an equal footing. God never gave a law to regu- 
late an evil ; all his laws are intended to do away with evil. 
All any man or woman requires is to have the sanction of God 
on his or her conduct ; they must needs be good citizens of earth, 
and also of heaven. 

God gives directions and legislates, in another place, regard- 
ing a man when he takes a new wife. " When a man hath 
taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be 
charged with any business : but he shall be free at home one 
year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken" (Deut. 
xxiv, 5). Herein are plain directions concerning a new wife. 
Again, the prophet Samuel's father had two wives : his name 
w r as Elkanah : " and he had two wives ; the name of the one 
was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah " (1 Sam. 1, 2). 
And this man went up yearly to Shiloh to worship the Lord; 
and if he w r as a wicked man, and living in open rebellion to 
the laws of God and good morals, how comes it that the Lord 
blessed him and his wives? Abraham had two women, one a 
w r ife and the other a concubine. Jacob had two wives and two 
concubines. Both these men were the chosen of God, favorites, 
the beloved of heaven, the fathers of the faithful, unto whom 
the great promises were made. Just let the Christian ministers 
think of it ! If some of them had been living in their day, and 
were as ignorant as they are now, and had the power, they would 
have caused them to be thrown into prison. "And David w r ent 
on, and grew great; and the Lord God of hosts was with him. 
And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusa- 
lem, after he was come from Hebron ; and there were yet sons 
and daughters born to David" (2 Sam. v, 10, 13). David was 



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the Lord's anointed, the chosen favorite ; and it is said of him 
that he was a man after God's own heart, except in the matter 
of Uriah the Hittite, and that was not for taking another wife, 
but for taking another man's wife, and for killing Uriah with 
the sword of the children of Ammon. David had several wives 
before he came to reign in Jerusalem, and he took more wives 
afterward ; and this was right and pleasing in the sight of God. 
It does not, however, please an infidel Christian church of the 
present day ; not at all ; they know better than God does what 
is right, it seems. It would hurt their feelings very much to 
see all the women get a chance to procure husbands. It would 
serve as a check to, even if it did not stop, prostitution. ■ 

In 1874 there were in England about eisrht hundred and 
fifty thousand more women than men, and in Germany about 
the same number. All these are forbidden the right to obtain 
husbands, by the mandates of a spurious priesthood and gov- 
ernments that are founded on pagan superstition, instead of 
on the bible. And if England and Germany have so many 
more women than men, how many more must there be in all 
other countries? In the United States, it seems, men and 
women are about equally balanced, although not equally divided 
up. There are vastly more women than men in the eastern 
states ; and in the year 1874, I think, the young women of 
Massachusetts petitioned the legislature for a law allowing a 
man to take more than one wife. Although the petition was 
not granted, yet it w r as shown that the women considered them- 
selves wronged, cut off from marriage. 

Perhaps the United States may feel proud of the fact that 
the number of men to women is nearly equal, but if the reasons 
for this were investigated, it might be rather sad. One reason, 
undoubtedly, is the appalling extent of prostitution in this 
country. The money that is made gets into the pockets of the 
great mass of the people, a large proportion of whom squander 
it on these poor unfortunate women. I am informed that the 
average life of those who obtain a livelihood by prostitution is 
about five years. If such is the case, some conception may be 
formed of the vast army of women who fall down slain. 

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to men in the Unite*d States is the steady flow of immigration ; 
the probability being that more men than women come to stay. 

Whatever the cause may be, it is a fact that there are in the 
world millions more women than men. 

Did Jesus Christ or the Apostles, or the New Testament, 
anywhere say that polygamy was wrong ? If the New Testa- 
ment teaches anything whatever on the subject, it teaches that 
it is right. From the fact that a bishop or a deacon was to have 
one wife, it may be inferred that their case was an exception to 
the general rule. Christ teaches polygamy in the New Testa- 
ment ; for he came not to destroy the law or the prophets, 
but to fulfill the law, to establish it. And no infidel or pagan 
power on earth will be able to hinder the kingdom of God or 
his laws. Society, in this age of the world, demands monogamy 
and whoredom ; but in the laws of the kingdom of God it was 
and shall again be written, There shall be no whore of the 
daughters of Israel. 

Perhaps the ministers of the. Christian church think that 
their skirts are clear of responsibility in regard to the increase 
of prostitution ; if they do, they are mistaken. If God, in his 
sacred word and laws, sanctioned polygamy by recognizing those 
who practiced it as his own people, as people after his own 
heart, and also by legislating for it, then all who oppose it are 
guilty of rebellion against the laws of God, and guilty of help- 
ing on the ruin of millions of both men and women. Ministers 
form societies for the reclamation of fallen women, after having 
done their part in making them what they are. An ounce of 
prevention is worth a pound of cure. Will these ministers tell 
us what the crime of polygamy is ? Is it fornication ? is it 
adultery? is it whoredom? or what is it? If God honors 
women who practice it by the chaste and sacred name of wife, 
how then is it a crime ? It might with equal truth be said that 
monogamy is a crime, as, according to the teaching of the church 
of Rome, it is when committed by pope or priest. The church 
of Rome, cradled in pagan Rome, became apostate, and Luther 
and the reformers got so disgusted with the church that they 
started to return to God, and to the teaching of the bible ; but, 
alas ! they got only half-way back, they turned faint-hearted ; 
they either did not know all the truth, or they were afraid to 



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proclaim it. I verily believe that if Luttier had known the 
whole truth he would have had the courage to stand by it. He 
was a noble man, with all his lack of knowledge how to teach 
and preach the whole truth concerning the kingdom which is to 
come, when the will of God will be done on earth, as it is in 
heaven. Brave and noble Luther ! He had the courage to burn 
the pope's bull, and I have no doubt that he will be one of the 
great company of saints which will descend with Christ to wit- 
ness the final overthrow of antichrist, when the saints will burn 
the pope's body. It seems hard to foretell such things of the 
judgment, but at whose door does the fault lie ? Is wickedness 
to reign for ever? It is over twelve hundred years since the 
pope was crowned universal bishop, and he has been teaching 
celibacy and exclusive monogamy ever since, and has changed 
times and laws, as was predicted ; and Protestants are fearfully 
contaminated with the filthy garments of Rome. But the time 
has come at last when the true followers of Christ must array 
themselves in pure and white raiment which is the righteous- 
ness of the saints. 

Polygamy is right, and in accordance with the will and the 
word of God. " Because David did that which was right in the 
eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from anything that he 
commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter 
of Uriah the Hittite" (1 Kings xv, 5). This one text is all- 
sufficient to prove that polygamy is right, and pure and good. 
If Bathsheba was not a wife, but a prostitute, as the ministers 
of the Christian church would call her now, then Solomon was 
a bastard ; and as Christ was descended of that line, it would 
follow that he came of a tainted ancestry. 

Cannot a man have but one wife ? God says that Solomon 
had seven hundred wives. " And he had seven hundred wives, 
princesses, and three hundred concubines : and his wives turned 
away his heart" (1 Kings xi, 3). Too many wives, like too 
many preachers, are dangerous, when they turn away from the 
truth and despise the plain teaching of the word of God ; but 
both are very good, if they know the truth and practice it.' 

It does not take seven hundred wives to ruin a man in these 
days : one wife has often been found sufficient for the purpose, 
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who are hastening on to ruin that have no wife. It is not so 
much the number of wives that will ruin a man, but it is wrong 
principles and bad practice. 

There are many laws in the bible in regard to marriage, men 
who ought to be compelled to marry the woman they have done 
wrong by, and so on ; but I have not room in this little work to 
enter further into the matter. I intended, at the outset, to show 
whether polygamy is in harmony with the bible or not, and I 
think that I have succeeded, at least to the satisfaction of those 
who wish to know the truth, and those who do not are privi- 
leged to worship their own gods. 



CHAPTER XE 



BONDSERVICE. 



How to regulate capital and labor is one of the greatest ques- 
tions before the world today. Statesmen of the highest rank 
declare that it is one of the most difficult of problems to solve, 
so that both master and servant shall be satisfied and protected 
in their rights, and so that the wheels of great commercial inter- 
ests shall not be impeded by the avarice or discontent of either. 

Masters have a right to be protected as well as servants, 
and servants as well as masters, but each in his own sphere of 
usefulness. 

This question, like all others, can be easily enough settled to 
the satisfaction of those who will believe what the bible teaches 
concerning it. 

Reason dictates that masters have need to exercise proper 
authority over their servants, in order that their work should go 
on smoothly and systematically, without being interrupted by 
strikes ; and reason directs that servants have a right to be pro- 
tected from unjust oppression and abuse at the hands of their 
masters. 

Now, the question is, what are the rights of all? God has 
given laws to regulate the whole matter ; and as he is all-wise, 
and knows more than all men, his will ought to be our law and 
guide to direct us in the way of peace and happiness. 

It is quite plainly laid down in his word that there are to be 
two kinds of servants, the bond and the free. There is no sub- 
ject that is more easily proven than that bondservice is right, 
and according to the word and will of God, as revealed in the 
bible ; and so is free labor for others The two are to go hand 
in hand ; and if the one is right, so is the other. But as there is 
no dispute about free labor I will investigate the proof for bond- 
service. " Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou 
shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of 



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them shall ye buy bondmen ami bondmaids. And ye shall take 
them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit 
them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: 
but over your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule 
one over another with rigor" (Lev. xxv, 44, 40). If there were 
no other proof of the validity of bondservice but this in the 
whole bible, it would be all-sufficient to prove that it is right, 
and fully in accord with the will of God, and that it is part and 
parcel of the law of the all-wise Being, and intended for the 
benefit of society at large. 

The Jews were to buy and sell their own people for bond- 
servants ; only they were to be allowed to go free at the end of 
every seven years. Bondservice is the law of the Old Testa- 
ment from beginning to end, and it is also the law of the New 
Testament. There is no teaching in the New Testament that 
runs counter to or controverts that of the Old on the subject of 
servitude. "Let as many servants as^are under the yoke count 
their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God 
and his doctrine be not blasphemed. If any man teach other- 
wise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of 
our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to 
godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about ques- 
tions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, 
evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, 
and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness : 
from such withdraw thyself" (1 Tim. vi, 1, 3-5). The apostle's 
teaching on the subject of bondservice corresponds with that of 
the Old Testament. The servant that is under the yoke being a 
bondservant, it is called the doctrine of God ; and of course the 
doctrine of abolitionists must be opposed to the doctrine of God, 
which it undoubtedly is. The abolitionist is described as proud, 
knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of 
words, and destitute of the truth. 

These few texts in the New Testament point out the people 
who are opposed to bondservice, and these people are not paid 
any flattering compliments. They are dolts, and they cause 
strife, and they are opposed to the doctrine of God. Of course 
bondservice must be the doctrine of God, tor it is contained in 
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God, and who will at the same time call himself a Christian, 
must be an interesting study to men who do believe it. For 
instance, the ministers of Christian denominations hold mis- 
sionary meetings to collect money to send the bible to the poor 
benighted heathen ; and ministers are sent out to tell these poor 
heathen that it is the word of God, that it is the truth, that it is 
all truth, every word of it. Now, the solemn question is, Does 
any man who is an abolitionist believe all the bible ? God says 
in his word, Thou shalt buy them : the abolitionist says, Thou 
shaft not buy them. We are told by these men to accept the 
bible as truth, and they are the first to cast a doubt on it and to 
question its validity. And there is something else that is 
remarkable about the great leaders of abolitionism. They claim 
to be very humane, very smart and progressive. The apostle 
says that they know nothing, but dote about foolish questions 
which cause strife ; and I have no doubt that abolitionists can 
call to mind when and where they have caused strife. As a 
matter of course they will blame others ; for who ever knew a 
person or party to persist in doing wrong and acknowledge it ? 
No, no, the blame always belongs somewhere else. We are 
informed by this self-constituted progressive party that bond- 
service might do well enough for the Jews, and for the dark 
ages, but not for so intelligent a people as the abolitionists. 
They openly claim that they are more capable of making good 
laws to regulate society than God was when he gave his laws to 
his servant Moses, some few thousand years ago. They openly 
assert that polygamy and bondservice are relics of the dark 
ages. That is nothing more nor less than saying that the bible 
is a dark and dead book, full of bad laws. O people deceived 
by the devil, and the devil is the politicians and preachers that 
dare to advocate principles and make laws contrary to the will 
and word of God, — do not deceive yourselves, ye shall not 
escape the just judgment of God, that is so soon to overtake the 
evildoers. It is, perhaps, of little use to reason with this self- 
righteous people ; so I will announce to them what shall befall 
them in the latter days. They shall awake to everlasting shame 
and contempt. Votes will not save them, armies will not save 
them, nothing can save them from the judgment except repent- 



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ance, and an acknowledgment of their errors before all the 
world, and a ready faith in the word of God. 

Ministers of the gospel, and politicians, and governments, all 
oombined, cannot show me a model city ; and I venture the 
assertion that the more preachers and politicians there are in 
a city, the more wicked people there are in it. How is this ? 
It is quite easy to understand it. The minister of the gospel 
preaches false doctrine, and the politician preaches false poli- 
tics ; both parties doing their best to overthrow the last vestige 
of God's laws on earth. 

If a man's politics are wrong, his religion will be wrong ; 
for a man cannot advocate bad laws — laws that are contrary to 
the word and will of God — and say, I have not sinned. 

The ministers of the gospel, and the politicians, are always 
promising the people some great reform or good thing to come, 
but it never comes ; but what does it matter, so long as they 
hold their position, and receive the wages of sin ? The more 
wicked a nation becomes, the more laws are made,— sure sign. 
The nations of the earth have been endeavoring to govern the 
world, for the last eighteen hundred years, by the laws founded 
on pagan Rome, and we see no likelihood of peace as yet, no, 
nor shall there be peace while they last ; and yet the ministers 
of the gospel natter them, and cry, Peace and prosperity ; we 
will go on and prosper. So said the false prophets to the king 
of Israel ; and the king of Israel was angry when the Lord's 
prophet told him the same thing in derision. People often get 
angry when they are told the truth, but it is better that it should 
be told ; it gives them a chance to see their errors, and points 
out the way to do right. " Remember ye the law of Moses ray 
servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, 
with the statutes and judgments." In that law there was bond- 
service ; there were also a great variety of other laws to regulate 
society, on the highest plane that it is possible for nations to 
attain to ; so there is no use in nations and people boasting that 
they can make laws that are better than the laws of God, which 
are the foundation upon which alone all lasting prosperity must 
be built. There is no other foundation that can he claimed to 
be more progressive, except in wickedness. What right has any 
man to cite a text of scripture, when he does not believe its 



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teaching ? The bible belongs to them that believe it, and not 
to infidels. If I believed that the bible taught any law that it 
would be wicked to observe, I ought to denounce it ; I should 
know at once that it was not the law of God ; I ought to suspect 
that God could not be good, and, further, I ought to suspect that 
there was no such God at all. 

Is it any wonder that infidelity is rampant outside of the 
Christian church, when there is so much within its own bor- 
ders ? Indeed, infidelity outside of the church is, to a great 
extent, the legitimate offspring of that which is inside of it. A 
noted infidel outside of the church, not a great while since, stood 
up and told preachers that they were better than their God, for 
he believed in slavery, but they did not ; that he believed in 
polygamy, while they did not. Now, which may be regarded as 
the more infidel of the two, the infidel outside, who rejected the 
bible because it contained what he construed to be bad laws, or 
the infidels inside, who say they believe the bible, but at the 
same time reject its teaching ? Let the people judge. 

Surely, if good men and angels could look down upon such a 
scene from the portals of heaven, they would blush with shame 
and indignation to see the ministers of the church militant 
desert their colors ! Not one of them found faithful to his flag ; 
not one in all the land to stand by the bible, to fight for his 
God ! ' What has the church come to ? a broken reed, which, if 
you lean upon it, will pierce the heart. What is that we hear 
from the pulpit ? that the bible is true, but its teaching is bad, 
wicked, corrupting : we are told that the book is of God, but 
that the doctrine is of the devil. Well did the apostle write of 
this generation when he said that in the latter times some 
should give heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils ; 
" forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats." 
From such turn away, leave them ; fly, or you shall not escape 
the judgment. " For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and 
with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, 
and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his sword 
will the Lord plead with all flesh : and the slain of the Lord 
shall be many" (Isa. lxvi, 15, 16). Then they shall appoint 
themselves one head and come up out of the land : for great 
shall be the day of Jezreel. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THE RESURRECTION. 



The resurrection is a subject about which the people seem 
to know very little. Some believe that the body will be raised ; 
others discard the idea, and believe that it is the spirit that is 
to be revivified, and taken to heaven ; others, that man has no 
spirit ; and so on. 

Well, mixed up as it is in the minds of the people, I think 
that we may be able to obtain light on the subject. 

A variety of resurrections are spoken of in the bible ; for in- 
stance, there is the first resurrection, and the second resurrection, 
and a resurrection independent of both these. 

The first resurrection refers directly to the restitution of the 
Christian church and the Jews to the Holy Land, to be formed 
into a kingdom. The second resurrection points to the same 
people, a thousand years later, being restored to man's primeval 
condition, when death and hell are to end, be destroyed. These 
are the first and the second resurrections ; but there is a resur- 
rection besides or independent of these, which we will explain. 
The first two refer to people in the body, but the third to the 
spirit of man at the time of the death of the body, when it 
returns to God and receives a new body of flesh and bone, like 
unto the body of Christ. "For we know, that if our earthly 
house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of 
God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens " 
(2 Cor. v, 1). 

The cloud of darkness which hangs over the people of God 
on earth arises from the fact that they do not comprehend the 
state of man's original condition. If the church of God under- 
stood man's condition before the fall, it would have long since 
cleared away the mist which overhangs the subject of the resur- 
rection. Man could many, and be given in marriage, raise 
children, live a long and happy life ; the average of which was 

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perhaps from five to ten hundred years, and then be translated 
to heaven. It was never intended that man should live always 
in this world, even before the fall. Reason, as well as the bible, 
teaches us that this earth could not have held the human family 
a great many thousand years ; there would not be room enough 
for all generations for ever. Other worlds were created for 
mansions for man to go to, and this earth was to propagate the 
family. 

The doctrine of the serpent that tempted Eve throws the true 
light on this subject. It was Adam that told Eve that very 
interesting story, and Adam was and is the serpent, so called : 
there was no snake or devil in the matter ; for although there 
was a snake, or snakes, in the garden, there was no devil. Cain 
was the first devil, and he was not born at that time. Christ 
said, while on earth, that the first murderer was the devil, and 
the father of lies. A snake cannot talk. God could make a 
snake talk, as well as he did Balaam's ass ; but it will not do to 
tell us that God made the snake talk, for that would make God 
the tempter. Well, since we have cleared the garden of the 
devil, being well assured that God tempts no man, we have to 
fall back upon the man and the woman, who could talk. Neither 
did the serpent lie to Eve ; he told her the truth, whoever he 
was ; for man did not die that day that he ate of the tree of 
knowledge of good and evil. The reason is obvious enough ;' 
for Christ was promised that very day, that he should take their 
death upon himself, and in due time he died upon the cross to 
save Adam and Eve. " For as in Adam all die, even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive." " Now the serpent was more 
subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had 
made" (Gen. iii, 1). The serpent was wiser, more intelligent, 
than anything or everything that lived in the garden. Dr. 
Adam Clark said that the serpent was most likely the orang- 
outang, and ridiculed the snake story ; but the good doctor's 
monkey will not do, for many reasons : one is that it was not 
the most intelligent animal in the garden ; and another is that 
monkeys do not talk ; and a better reason than either is that 
the descendants of the serpent were to crucify Christ, bruise his 
heel ; and the best of all reasons is that Christ died to bruise 
the serpent's head, and God would not die to kill snakes and 



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monkeys. He must have a higher motive than such groveling 
nonsense, which was, "the wicked will he destroy"; and the 
wicked hands of men destroyed Christ's body upon the cross, 
bruised his heel. Christ called the hypocritical Pharisees ser- 
pents, a generation of vipers, that is, a serpentine brood from a 
serpentine stock. 

Now, as I have cleared some of the rubbish out of the way, 
I will show who the serpent is, and what his curse. Man was 
the only being that was created with the power of speech, and 
Adam and Eve were the only beings in the garden that could 
talk ; and it was Adam who told Eve that she would not die if 
she ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Adam rea- 
soned out that fact from the name of the tree : it was not called 
the tree of evil, but of good and evil. Adam, being wise, rea- 
soned correctly that they would not nor could not die, from the 
fact that they were to know good and evil. Now, a man when 
he is dead knows no good, neither can he know evil, and Adam 
and Eve were to know both ; and they realized both afterward, 
and the whole human family has realized both ever since the 
fall. How, then, is the serpent a liar, when he told the truth ? 
It was the essence of truth, straight as the needle to the pole. 
Adam did not tell Eve to eat of the fruit ; that was her own 
individual act, and she gave to Adam and he did eat, he know- 
ing, it seems, quite well what he was doing ; for the apostle 
says that Adam was not deceived, but the woman ; and there is 
no doubt that Adam loved his wife as few men know how, and 
perhaps as few women deserve to be loved. She was his only 
social company ; she was perfection, in mind and body ; she 
was all that was lovable, beautiful, and comfortable to the heart 
of Adam. Wherever she was going, so was he, even to the 
gates of hell, if need be. What will not a brave man do for the 
woman that has the charms and power to win his heart ! Adam 
was the serpent ; he was wise, cunning, subtle, or call him what 
you will, but you must not brand him as a liar. Cain told the 
first lie that is recorded in sacred history. He murdered his 
brother, because he would not be ruled over by him; and when 
the Lord asked him where he was, he said, I know not ; there- 
fore Cain attained to the dignity of being the father of lies. lie 
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therefore, to do Cain justice, we ought to call him the first 
abolitionist. The will of God was nothing to him ; he would 
trample over his brother's dead body ; he was bound to rule, 
even if blood flowed freely. 

Now, if Adam was the serpent, there must .the serpent's curse 
fall, and there is just where it did fall, and, in Adam, fell upon 
all men. "As in Adam all die." Yes, that is just it ; for if 
Adam had not fallen there would be no death. Death came in 
through the fall, and has fallen upon all men. There are only 
two exceptions to the rule : one was Enoch, and the other Elijah. 
Enoch was a representative man, and Elijah was another. The 
first was to show us that all men would have been translated to 
heaven if Adam had not eaten of the forbidden fruit ; the second 
was to show us that all men, after the thousand years' reign of 
the saints, and after the last judgment on the wicked every- 
where, will be translated to heaven for all future time, and there 
shall be no more death. The simple solution of the whole mat- 
ter is, that Enoch and Elijah escaped the serpent's curse. The 
serpent's curse was placed only on the body of man. " On thy 
belly shalt thou go"; or, in other words, "Dust thou art, and 
unto dust shalt thou return." That is, instead of being trans- 
lated, all men shall go through the grave ; some of the spirits 
of whom go to heaven, and some are reserved here in what is 
called hell, to await the final judgment. The bodies of Enoch 
and Elijah did not go all the way to heaven : they went a cer- 
tain distance in the air and exploded, or went to dissolution, 
went into the gases of which they were composed ; for flesh and 
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God ; and, furthermore, if 
every one of us were to carry away a body, the earth would be 
carried away after awhile, and this planet would be destroyed 
from under heaven ; and the Lord hath established the earth, 
and it abideth for ever. 

Now, then, we shall get at the resurrection as it should be, 
and as it is. It is easy to see that good spirits have been going 
steadily to heaven ever since the first good person went to sleep, 
or the body died. The body returns to dust, and the spirit to 
God who gave it, and we are led to exclaim, How wonderful are 
thy works, O Lord of hosts ! And how insignificant is man ! 
yet the Lord careth for him, and none of his saints are lost. 



nil. RE8UBRECTI0N. 7'.) 

What bright world you may go to I cannot tell ; where or on 
what planet we shall meet our beloved friends I know not, but 
be assured that it will exceed the expectations of all of us, and 

the Lord will give all spirits a new body of the material of 
heaven. They shall be clothed upon with their house which is 
in heaven, a body of flesh and bone, a celestial body. They 
shall eat. they shall drink, they shall sing the songs of Moses 
and the Lamb for ever and ever. They may have some active 
employments, but I do not know ; it is not revealed. I go 
only so far as I can build upon what is revealed. God ate 
and drank with man; angels did the same: we shall be like 
them. We can build on that. Blessed hope ! when the grim 
monster is drawing closer, and the heartbeats grow less ; when 
the eyes grow dim : when friends can do nothing but feel the 
excruciating pain of parting ; when the serpent's curse is knock- 
ing at the door. He demands his pound of flesh : he must have 
it, he shall have it ; but that bright spirit, washed in the blood 
of the Lamb, he cannot detain. It has escaped the serpent's 
curse ; it shall mount up, as on the wings of eagles, to the bright 
worlds above. Blessed hope ! It is so much better than the 
hope of the infidel. All who die do not have their friends 
around them ; some are lonely, desolate and forsaken, persecuted 
and afflicted. Lover and friend may be far away, and the 
hideous monster may be calling loudly for the heart's blood. 
It is at such. a time that this blessed hope will serve you well ; 
it will serve as an anchor in the haven of rest. 

There is something enchanting in the subject of the resurrec- 
tion, and for the moment we are liable to almost forget that we 
are in the body ; but we must not lose sight of the fact that the 
time for rejoicing has not arrived. The battle of truth against 
error has to be fought, and the victory won, before we shall have 
much time to rejoice. 

" I am the resurrection and the life . . . and whosoever 
liveth and believeth in me shall never die." So said Christ, and 
it cannot refer to the body, for the bodies of all die ; and it 
proves, without any further comment, that the spirits of those 
who do not believe shall die, because hell and death, and all that 
are in hell, will be destroyed. The wicked constitute hell, and 
hell ends with them. The last judgment is to take place at the 



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end of the millennium, which is a little more than a thousand 
years from the present time. 

Then will come the second resurrection, which is the restora- 
tion of all men that will be left alive upon the earth to man's 
original state ; and at that time the serpent's curse will termi- 
nate, and not before. 

The first resurrection will be in the present generation, and 
will consist in restoring the Jews and Christians to the Holy 
Land and setting up the kingdom of God, together with the 
judgment and the coming of the Saviour ; after which war is to 
cease for ever, and trade and commerce will begin to flourish on 
a better basis. All the people will be restored fully half-way 
back to the state in which man existed before the fall. 

Such will be the effects of the first and second resurrections. 
But there is no fixed time for the general resurrection, only as 
the body dies. God is the author of order, and order is heaven's 
first law. The great Jehovah never had any time set for the 
resurrection which is to pass souls from earth to heaven, except 
as stated just above. Let the people expel from their minds for- 
ever such nonsense as they have been taught by the Christian 
church on the subject of the resurrection ; for as people are born 
into the world, so are they borne out of it and into heaven, 
through the portals of the tomb. And when man is finally 
restored and will die no more, but be translated, he will go no 
more regularly to the shining worlds than he does now ; only 
there will be more of them go. 

The ministry are where Jonah was when he was in the 
whale ; and if they will not listen to reason and the bible, let 
them go on to the judgment, when they will awake to shame and 
contempt. Let them wait till the finger of scorn is pointed at 
them by the members of their own church, when they shall 
listen, for God will not be mocked any longer. The judgment 
shall sit and the books be opened, and these ministers will be 
called upon to settle up. I would ask them, Whether is it better, 
to seek for the truth before it is too late, before Christ conies, 
or be found calling upon the rocks and mountains to hide you 
from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne, and from the 
wrath of the Lamb ? Do not imagine that all your fine ways 
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day. You have deceived the people, and not alone the people, 
but yourselves, and the sooner you undeceive yourselves the 
better. "Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth 
them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house 
upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the Hoods came, and 
the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for 
it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these 
sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a 
foolish man, which built his house upon the sand : and the rain 
descended, and the Hoods came, and the winds blew, and beat 
upon that house ; and it fell : and great was the fall of it " 
(Matt, vii, 24-27). So said our Saviour, and it shows how im- 
portant it is to have the truth. 

The Jews thought they were serving God when they clam- 
ored for the blood of Christ ; but that did not save them from 
the judgment during the siege of Jerusalem, when there were 
about nine hundred thousand persons butchered within the city 
walls, and about one million carried captive into all parts of the 
world ; when their city was razed to the ground and rendered 
desolate ; when, for the want of necessary food, many children 
Avere eaten by their own parents. 

Are the gentile Christians so sure that they are any more 
right than the Jews were ? They had better look to this, and 
take a friend's advice before it is too late. I say to them, You 
are not prepared to meet Christ, with all of your mummeries 
and endless creeds and errors. Christ cannot, nor will he, meet 
you in peace with a train of churches, all differing, less or more, 
from one another, and not one of you possessing the whole truth. 
Do you think for a moment that you can deceive Christ when he 
comes ? And if you do not believe that he is coming soon, that 
is as great an error as you can persist in. You must clothe your- 
selves in the principles of truth, the wedding-garment, in order 
to be a welcome guest at the marriage of the Lamb. Be advised, 
and ye shall be kings and priests in the kingdom, and live and 
reign with Christ in the city of our God, in the new Jerusalem. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

A XEW HE A VEX AXD A NEW EARTH. 

Some parts of the New Testament are written in what we 
may properly call ambiguous language, and in the hands of an 
unskillful interpreter, or a corrupt church, may mean anything 
or nothing. So true is this, that I have known some ministers 
and people to boast that the New Testament was their bible. 
They can twist the New Testament to suit themselves and their 
creed. The Old Testament is one of the plainest and best books 
ever written, and its language is hard to twist. Its plain truths 
stand out like a mountain of granite ; and the New Testament 
must be explained by the light of the Old. 

" And I saw a new heaven and a new earth : for the first 
heaven and the first earth were passed away ; and there was no 
more sea. And I John saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, com- 
ing down from God, out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned 
for her husband" (Rev. xxi, 1, 2). 

We are not to suppose for a moment that this text teaches 
that this earth is to be destroyed. If this were so, heaven must 
be destroyed also ; and that proves too much, for there would 
then be no heaven left. There is no city to come down from 
the clouds and be set upon the earth, for it is shown in the Old 
Testament that the city is to be built upon its old site, of tim- 
ber, gold, silver, brass and iron, " and there is to be no more sea." 
That is quite reasonable to suppose, that God will change the 
sea into dry land, so that there will be two more earths, as it 
were, of the size of the present one, for people to settle on ; for 
two-thirds of the earth are covered with water. God can change 
the great channels of water into the centre of the earth, and make 
what seas there are left much deeper, or dispose of the waters so 
that the very beds of the oceans shall become farming land and 
a place to dwell on for millions of people. And as man is to be 
restored to his original simplicity, and live from five to ten 

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hundred years, it would seem reasonable thai God will literally 
do this great thing. " And I heard a great voice ou1 of heaven, 
saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will 
dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself 
shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away 
all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, 
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: 
for the former things are passed away" (Rev. xxi, 3, 4). It is 
the restoring of the city of Jerusalem, and the final restoration 
of the earth and of man to their primitive state, that is to be 
understood ; making all things new, "and there shall be no more 
death." That will do away with the serpent's curse, and do 
away with the sorrow of the grave : man will no longer have to 
dig a hole in the ground to burv his best beloved. It is no won- 
der that John went into a rhapsody of language over the grand 
restitution, and called it all new. And he that sat upon the 
throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto 
me, Write ; for these words are true and faithful " (5). 

All Our systems of government, our sins and sorrows, and 
death itself, will all have passed away. That will be new 
indeed, and that is what it means. The earth will be restored ; 
the bad weeds, the winds, and the tornadoes, will all be changed, 
yes, all changed back to its original glory. 

All that John has written is in corroboration of the sublime 
prophet Isaiah. Did John take his cue from the prophet ? It 
looks like it. " For, behold, I create new heavens and a new 
earth : and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into 
mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I 
create : for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her 
people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my 
people : and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, 
nor the voice of crying. There shall be no more thence an 
infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days : for 
the child shall die an hundred years old ; but the sinner, being 
an hundred years old, shall be accursed. And they shall build 
houses, and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vineyards, and 
eat the fruit of them. They shall not build and another inhabit ; 
they shall not plant and another eat : for as the days of a tree 
are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the 



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work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain, nor bring 
forth for trouble : for they are the seed of the blessed of the 
Lord, and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pa§s, 
that before they call, I will answer : and while they are yet 
speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed 
together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock : and dust 
shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in 
all my holy mountain, saith the Lord" (Isa. lxv, 17-25). 

If there be any who think that the New Testament does not 
agree with the Old, let him say how it comes that John and 
Isaiah agree so well. If any man think that the New Testament 
teaches different laws and a different gospel from the Old, he is 
mistaken, blind, and in the dark, being led away with some 
wind of doctrine that is not good nor wholesome. Christ told 
his disciples, " Think not that I am come to destroy the law and 
the prophets ; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." 

But it is a lamentable fact that the Christian ministry teach 
that Christ came to destroy the laws and statutes of the bible. 
They, in their wisdom, concluded to tolerate nine out of the 
whole. They have rejected the seventh day for the sabbath, 
and set up a sabbath which, according to their own notions, is 
just as good. Well, we shall see. The Christian world is about 
to come in collision with Christ and his kingdom, and the king- 
dom will take all the wind out of them. The enemies of the 
kingdom will be found groveling like worms of the dust, because 
they oppose the setting up of the kingdom of God. They claim 
to be the kingdom of God. Well, if they are, why not let us 
see the fruits of the kingdom ? why not let us see the lion and 
the lamb lying down together ? why don't they live as long as 
they are to do in the kingdom ? why don't they go to heaven 
without dying, as they will do in the kingdom ? why is not sor- 
row and sighing done away, as it will be in the kingdom ? Who 
will be slower than the ministers of the church to receive the 
truth ? very few. Who will be our bitter enemies ? the minis- 
ters. Who will talk so exceeding proudly about the apostolical 
succession as the ministers ? not one. Who are they that sit in 
the highest seats ? the ministers. Who are they that will 
begin with shame to hunt for the lowest seats when Christ 
comes ? the ministers. Yes, thou art the man ! You will then 



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be minister do Longer. Who will then call you doctor, and 
professor, and reverend, and right reverend ? no one. Who will 
then ^ako to the greatest shame and contempt? tin- ministers. 
Who will point the finger of scorn at the ministers ? the people. 
There is but one last chance lor ministers and people. Turn ye; 
why will ye hold on to the fleshpots of Egypt? Is there any- 
thing so very enchanting about the Christian church, that ye 
should abide by it ? Who is it that betrayed that innocent 
young girl in his Hock ? the minister. Who is it that went into 
his pulpit the next Sunday and preached against polygamy ? the 
same minister. W x ho is it that ran away with that bag of 
money ? the Sunday-school teacher. Who is it that is more 
vile than these last two ? that very precise man, that never does 
any of these crimes, and yet preaches false doctrine and calls it 
the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, which gives 
a sheep's coat of respectability to a system that is damning poor 
souls and deluging the world with blood. Who is it that 
believes that the present Christian church is the kingdom of 
God ? the man that is asleep while he is awake. 

When the kingdom of God is fully set up, there is to be no 
more war ; and if the Christian church were the kingdom of 
God, there would be no war. Who is it that believes there is 
no war at the present time ? the fool. Has not this church had 
time enough to bring about peace ? Eighteen hundred years is 
a long time to be setting up a kingdom ; and to say that it is 
merely being set up is to admit that it is not set up. Christian- 
church ministers, where are you now ? Your sophistry has 
found you out, and there is no escape. 

" The saints shall judge the world." I invite all the saints 
to judge whether the gospel according to the Christian church 
or the gospel according to the bible is the truth. The Christian 
church teaches that it was a snake, or a monkey, that talked to 
Eve in the garden ; the bible, that it was Adam. The church 
teaches that Adam and Eve died "that day" in the garden ; the 
bible, that Christ died to save them. The church teaches that 
God is only a spirit ; the bible, that he is both a body and spirit. 
The church teaches that God is one, two and three spirits ; the 
bible, that he is one spirit. The church teaches thai three can 
be one; the bible, that three cannot be one. The church teaches 



86 JEZREEL. 

that the devil and the fallen angels came out of heaven ; the 
bible, that Cain, and the sons of God, or the sons of Seth who 
intermarried with the daughters of Cain, were the devil and the 
fallen angels. The church teaches that the serpent was the first 
liar ; Christ, that Cain was the first liar. The church teaches 
that the Gentile dispensation is a brighter dispensation than the 
Jewish, and is compared to the sun ; the bible, that the Jewish 
dispensation was the brightest, and is compared to the sun. 
The church teaches that Christ was only the Son of God ; the 
bible, that Christ was the very and eternal Father, as well as 
the Son ; called the Son in virtue of his office as mediator and 
redeemer. The church teaches that a spirit, or the spirit of God, 
is a person ; the bible, that the spirit is not a person ; that it 
takes a body as well as a spirit to make a person : a spirit is 
only an entity, not a person. The church teaches that the spirit 
of man is a part of God; the bible, that the spirit of man is not 
a part of God. The church teaches that God will send that same 
spirit to hell, to be tormented with fire and brimstone, or some 
equally cruel torment, and never die ; the bible, that no eternal 
life is promised to the wicked. The church teaches that God will 
send the spirit of the wicked, being a part of himself, and tor- 
ment that spirit, and therefore himself, in hell fire and brim- 
stone, or something else, for all time ; the bible, that God will 
not torment himself, nor yet man, in the flames of eternal hell ; 
for hell is to be destroyed, as well as the wicked. The church 
teaches that hell is some place remote from the earth ; the bible, 
that this earth is hell, or where wicked spirits are reserved for 
execution and death ; and when the wicked are destroyed out of 
the earth, there will be no hell : a new heaven and a new earth, 
but no new hell. The church of Rome, in particular, teaches 
that a bishop or a deacon is not to be the husband of one wife ; 
the bible, that a bishop and a deacon may be the husband of one 
wife. The same church teaches that the Virgin Mary is an 
intercessor ; the bible, that there is but one mediator, Jesus 
Christ. Both Roman Catholic and Protestant assert that there 
are three persons in the Trinity ; God says that he knows of 
only one Person. The churches say that the kingdom of God 
was set up when Christ came into this world ; the bible, that it 
will not be set up till he come again. The church says that 



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there will be peace, and a millennium, before Christ come; the 
bible, that there will be no peace, much less a millennium, 
before he conic. The churches proclaim that they are to judge 
the world ; the bible, that the saints are to judge the world. 
Tlu' church ministers preach that all will go to heaven, only by 
different roads ; the bible, that God lias somewhat against every 
one of you. and that, unless you repent, he will remove your 
candlestick out of its place ; for the candlestick is about all 
there is left ; the candle has gone out, and God says that you are 
in his way, you are cumbering the ground : the tares must be 
weeded out, then he will gather his wheat into the garner, and 
set up the kingdom over your ashes. The church says that 
bondservice is wrong ; the bible, that it is right. The church 
says that polygamy is wicked ; the bible, that it is not wicked ; 
that it is altogether right and good, and in strict harmony with 
the will of God. The church says that polygamy is incest ; the 
bible, that it is not incest. The church is adding to and dimin- 
ishing from the word of God ; the bible declares that there shall 
be added unto her the plagues that are written in this book. The 
church says that the scriptures are of spiritual and private inter- 
pretation ; the bible, that there is no scripture of any private 
interpretation. The church says that no one will know when 
Christ is coming ; the bible, that the wise shall understand, at 
the time that Michael stands up, at the time of the end. The 
church says that the wicked will always live in hell, in torment; 
the bible, that " the soul that sinneth, it shall die, it shall be as 
though it had not been." The church says that man is to cease 
marrying and giving in marriage at the end of the world, when 
the earth will be destroyed and all things broken up ; the bible, 
that the earth abideth for ever, and cannot be moved ; and that 
man will be living upon the earth, and marrying and giving in 
marriage, for all time. The clrurch says that they will have no 
children in the new heavens and the new earth ; the bible, that 
"They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble : for 
they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring 
with them" (Isa. lxv, 23). The church says that it is right to 
pray in public, in churches and in families ; Christ, that it is not 
right; that you are to pray only in secret. The church says 
that it is right to eat swine's flesh, and the broth of abominable 



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things ; the bible, that it is wrong to do so, and that the eater 
of swine's flesh, and the broth of abominable things, and the 
mouse, shall be consumed together. The church says that it is 
wrong to drink wine, or strong drink ; the bible, that it is right: 
" And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul 
lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong 
drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth " (Deut. xiv, 26). The 
church says that it is right to keep the sacrament, or passover, 
at any time that she may appoint ; the bible, that it is right to 
keep it only once a year, and at the time appointed. The church 
says that it is right to put the prefix Rev. before a minister's 
name ; the bible, that it is wrong, for it is the name of God. 
It is used once in the bible — "good and reverend is his name." 
The church says that the wine which Christ made was not wine, 
that it was a deception, and would not make people drunk, no 
matter how much were taken ; the bible, that the wine which 
Christ made was no deception ; that it was the very best of 
wine, and would have made them all drunk if they had partaken 
of it intemperately. The church says that wine is bad for the 
stomach ; the bible, that it is good for the stomach. Timothy 
was a teetotaler. Paul, a wiser man, advised him to drink a 
little wine for his stomach sake, and his often infirmities. The 
church says that it is wrong to drink wine, or strong drink, 
which God has told them to do ; and yet they will swallow 
down swine's flesh by the ton, and the broth of abominable 
things, which God has told them not to do. 

All this catalogue of high crimes and misdemeanors is only 
a small portion of what I could charge against the Christian 
church of the present day, if I had more room, but space forbids 
it in this work. There is enough, however, to convict them of 
wrong-doing, in the eyes of them that wish to see. 

"The saints shall judge the world." The saints are now 
called upon to investigate this heavy charge of wrong-doing, 
and sit in judgment on the Christian church ; and if you find 
it guilty, condemn it. Remember, the law is laid down for 
your guidance ; that is, the bible is our lawbook : no creed 
outside of the bible shall be allowed in this court. And if you 
find that the Christian church preaches and carries out the truth 
according to the bible, you are to bring in a verdict of not 



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guilty : but if you find that she is guilty of all these serious 
crimes, thou you are to bring in a verdict of guilty in the first 
degree. And I charge all saints, as before the bar of Almighty 
God, where yon and 1 shall have to stand in this generation, to 
condemn the guilty and clear the innocent. The most solemn 
moment for the saints has arrived. You are not called upon to 
judge a county, or a state, or a nation ; but to judge the world. 
Remember, your responsibilities are fearful ; not so much be- 
cause you cannot understand this great question, but because, if 
you allow your former associations and teachings to bias your 
minds, you are lost ; you shall go down in the great vortex of 
defeat, shame and contempt. 

If my friends, as well as my enemies, will allow me, I should 
like to add a few words in extenuation of my conduct in bring- 
ing myself so prominently before the world as a prophet and a 
prince. I have no friends to wirepull for me. I cannot come 
before the people and say, I take this office simply to oblige my 
friends. I have only one friend, who is all-powerful to help me, 
as well as his people, and he is the God of Abraham, of Isaac, 
and of Jacob ; and he has laid this burden upon me, and I am 
simply trying to discharge my duty, in my weak way, as best 
I can. 

I have wondered why God did not call some great scholar, 
learned in all the wisdom of the schools, to fulfill my mission. 
I have wondered why he did not call some better man ; for I 
find that I am not an angel, I am human, and expect to con- 
tinue so while in the fiesh. I have often thought that there are 
so many that surely ought to be better than I am ; but no doubt 
God knows his own plans best, and no doubt he understands in 
what manner T am adapted to his purpose, to do his own work 
for his people. I love the cause with all my heart ; and if any 
were to ask me the reason, I do not know that I could give them 
all. Some may say, It is because you think you are to be a 
king: hut in that the)- are mistaken : and if God sees fit, when 
lie comes, to call the man that may envy me, I will step down, 
and be thankful that I have done my best to help to set up the 
kingdom of God ere 1 go hence. So here is a fair show tor all 
the saints when they shall come up to Jerusalem. Do not think 
that I am not in earnest. You can present your ease to Christ : 



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for he will be there in person, and will talk with his saints ; and 
if he should appoint you king, I will be the first to take you by 
the hand, if you will allow me, and heartily congratulate you on 
your success. There are plenty of people that have more time 
to enjoy the world than any king ; that is, if he does his duty, 
and, if he does not, he will soon have all the trouble he wants, 
and more than he would like to bargain for. Why do not both 
kings and people be more happy? Because they do not do 
right. It is not always the king's fault, or the queen's fault ; 
not at all. One great trouble with the people is, they do not 
know what right is, nor what they ought to have. They are 
deceived by false teachers and corrupt politicians, and so on. 
There is one thing that the people think they want, and that is, 
a vote, or a chance to vote ; and when they get in their vote 
they feel rather pleased over it ; they think they have some 
power. Well, it is a kind of pleasant delusion, at the time ; but 
it does neither the voter nor the world in general much good. 
The leaders reap the harvest, and the voters do the work, and 
pay their own expenses, and waste much valuable time, and 
that is about all. 

Talk about patriotism to a particular nation, and then pro- 
scribe your neighbors, put on prohibitory tariffs to make a few 
nabobs rich, to the injury of the mass of the people ! I will 
offer the people a patriotism that is worthy of their best man- 
hood. Be a patriot of the world, a cosmopolitan, a patriot for 
God, and for his kingdom which is to fill the whole world. Be 
a patriot to do away with war budgets ; be a patriot for peace ; 
a patriot to do away with death and hell ; a patriot to make the 
people sing for joy and gladness of heart, for all the good that 
the Lord will procure unto you. 



CHAPTER XV. 



THE LAST GOSPEL. 



"And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having 
the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the 
earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 
saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him ; for 
the hour of his judgment is come : and worship him that made 
heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." — 
Rev. xiv, 6, 7. 

This angel of the everlasting gospel is the same with Michael, 
David, the prophet like unto Moses, and Elijah the prophet, who 
is to "turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the 
heart of the children to their fathers^lest I come and smite the 
earth with a curse." 

The Christian church of the present day has no gospel that 
the Jews will accept, either now or ever ; and, furthermore, 
Paul clearly shows that the Jews will be grafted into their own 
olive-tree; that is, into their own church-and-state, with all its 
former institutions ; and all Christians will have to accept that 
or nothing. This is the last gospel that will ever be offered to 
man, and it is to be everlasting ; it will answer for all time to 
come : it is the truth, the whole truth, and no gospel (or good 
news) shall ever exceed or supersede it. 

The angel of this gospel was to declare that the hour of the 
judgment is come ; that it is already arrived. This is the fact 
that I wish to impress upon the minds of all. This honor have 
all the saints, Ye are now called upon to judge the world : first, 
to judge whether the Christian church preaches the truth, or 
whether 1 preach the truth. Afterward you are to be brought 
back to the Holy Land, and formed into a kingdom : then you 
arc to judge in a judicial manner ; and for once, and once only, 
will God's people he called upon to execute judgment in the 
form of a great war, or battle, in the valley of Jehoshaphat. At 

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this time, Christ will conie, on a day that shall be neither clear 
nor dark, that will be given to his people as a signal, so that 
they will know the very day when he comes. It is quite neces- 
sary for to know the very day on which he comes, for one special 
reason. The Mount of Olives, in a military sense, commands 
the city of Jerusalem, and God's people will be holding the forts 
on the mount ; and as there is to be a great earthquake on the 
day of the advent of Christ, and the Mount of Olives is to be 
divided asunder, one half toward the north and one half toward 
the south, and the river of life is to run out from under the 
sanctuary, or temple ; and, if the soldiers were on the mount, 
they might be destroyed by the earthquake. The day, which 
shall be neither clear nor dark, will be peculiarly a signal, so 
that the officers will give the word of command for all the 
soldiers to come down out of the mount, in order to save their 
lives ; for " precious are the lives of his saints " in the sight of 
God. The day will be not so dark that they will be unable to 
distinguish between friend and foe. God's people are to be 
dressed in white raiment, and they are to have white horses ; so 
they will be readily distinguishable from the enemy. From this 
it may be understood how carefully planned is everything for 
our guidance. 

There would be no use in entering into a lengthy calculation 
of the times, at this late date. The day for doing that is 'past 
and gone ; we are too near to the great event, and the people 
want something more satisfactory to lean upon. First, they 
want the truth, and, secondly, they want a sign, and this sign 
I have already given ; but I will now refer to it once more. 

The prophet like unto Moses was to give some great sign of 
his mission, and of his knowledge of the true interpretation of 
the prophets and apostles, and of our Saviour's own teaching. 
The tares are first to be gathered out of the wheat, and after- 
ward the wheat is to be garnered in the kingdom of God. Xow, 
what is the fire, and who are the tares? And we read that the 
tares are to be gathered out of his kingdom, not out of all the 
world. What the saints and the Jews have a right to claim is 
the land that was promised to Abraham and to his seed for 
ever, and that is the Holy Land. The angels will come from 
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of their houses, and out of the fields, and they will cause fire to 
burn them into ashes; and neither the angels nor the fire will 
injure the good, nor the houses; neither will they do any 
damage to the trees of the field; but they will carefully burn 
up the wicked out of the kingdom of God proper. And this 
fire will not extend to other countries or nations. 

The Christian church teaches that the burning of the tares is 
to be general, and that it will cover the whole world. The great 
test will prove who knows the truth, and who does not. 

God, as well as reason and common sense, demands that the 
people shall have some proof of a man, and of his mission : and 
I most humbly submit it to all the people ; for " if the thing 
follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord 
hath not spoken." 

The time of the event is not given : it is to come upon the 
world as a snare. By this I mean that the exact time is not 
given ; but rest assured that in a very few years, at most, it w T ill 
be announced in thundering tones to the whole world, even in 
the daily newspapers. This is what is called the sign of the 
Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and 
great glory. Then shall all the tribes of the earth wail because 
of him. He shall then set the sheep on his right hand, that is, 
in the kingdom, and the goats on the left ; that is, they will be 
less exalted, or, rather, they will be cast down, for Jerusalem 
and her people shall be at the head, and no longer tributary. 

I have given to the people merely a brief outline of this great 
subject, and have not been able, within the limits of this 
treatise, to enter fully into it. Many things that the people 
would like to hear discussed have been necessarily omitted. 
The size of the work could have been increased, but I have 
considered it best not to draw too heavily on people's purses, 
until they have had some slight chance to investigate the matter 
that has been brought before them. The bible is in the hands 
of all the people, and I am satisfied that what has been written 
will serve to guide the w r ise in the right direction. Do not 
look into a church commentary, if you do not want to be led 
astray, except for dates, and times, and such things. There are 
many able investigations as to times and dates, and would to 
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make the heart sick to think that a man's enemies are they of 
his own house. But I am not discouraged ; for it is not alone 
left to the weak efforts of any man, or any number of men ; but 
if any think that God is going to do all the work, and man is 
going to receive all the benefit, what a sad mistake will be 
made ! God expects that all good people will put forth their 
noblest efforts to forward this grand movement, and help to set 
up the kingdom of God on earth, that his w r ill may be done, as 
it is in heaven. 

Some of my teaching is the wildest kind of wickedness, if 
the Christian ministers teach the truth ; but if the bible teaches 
the truth, it is the soundest kind of theology. And there I rest 
my character and fortune, and am willing to fight it out to the 
end. This is a small work, and will not cost the people much, 
and the poor among them will be able to procure a copy of it ; 
and we read that the poor of the people shall trust in it. I ven- 
ture to assert that future ages and nations will admit that there 
is more sound theology to be found within its covers than in all 
the books of the entire Christian church. 

This is the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty- 
three, and I say unto all the people that this generation shall not 
pass away until all these things shall be accomplished. I advise 
all to believe in God ; to believe also in Christ, as the one only 
Person, and only God, having a body as well as a spirit. This 
is the first and great commandment : this is the leading question 
that Judah and Ephraim are to meet on, to part no more. It is 
of the utmost importance that all things that have been treated 
of receive the fullest investigation, and that no time be wasted 
in preparing to enter the kingdom ; for neglect may result in 
being forever excluded therefrom. Only those that are ready 
shall enter in. 

Some may think it strange that I have spent so little time 
exposing popery, the great three-horned antichrist, the infallible 
man of sin. What is the use of shooting at a dead carcase? 
I offer the everlasting gospel to all, and all shall receive a wel- 
come on the same terms, but on none other shall any dwell with 
Christ in his kingdom. If the people will adhere to dead creeds, 
and dead churches, it is their privilege to do so for a little while 
longer. We would not force any to come into the kingdom, 



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even if we could do so, because none would be worthy of it on 
such terms. 

II' the bible teaches that bondservice and polygamy are right, 
and these things are obnoxious to a certain fastidious class of 
people, do not blame me for it, but blame the bible, which the 
church says is the word of God. 

I have declared all that the Lord has commanded me in 
his word. 1 have kept back nothing, even in the face of public 
opinion. If I had suppressed a part of the truth, on the ground 
of policy, I should be like unto the ministers, who find it con- 
venient to believe wdiat is popular, and to cater to public opin- 
ion : I should be a liar and a poltroon, and I could not expect 
Jehovah to stand by me in the trying time of need. 

" Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of 
nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not 
for drunkenness" (Eccl. x, 17). "Israel then shall dwell in 
safety alone : the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of 
corn and wine ; also his heavens shall drop down dew. Happy 
art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the 
Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excel- 
lency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ! and 
thou shalt tread upon their high places " (Deut. xxxiii, 28, 29). 

What can I say more to the people than I have said in this 
little book, to arouse the sleeping world to a sense of the great 
question that we have had before us? "Many of them that 
sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting 
life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they 
that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament ; and 
they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and 
ever." 

Can there be any greater inducements held out to the people 
to wake up, and try to do all in their power to help on this great 
cause? You shall shine as the sun in the kingdom of God. Do 
not allow dead issues to hold you in their grasp any longer. 
Wake up to the true light, which is to fill the world with bless- 
ings and with beauty. Wake up, and help us to carry out the 
good work which shall do away with sin, do away with death, 
do away with hell, do aw r ay with war, do away with false 
teachers, do away with corrupt politicians, do away with the 



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great burden of unjust taxes, and, in short, do away with the 
reign of the devil, and, in its stead, introduce the peaceable 
reign of Christ, and the glorious kingdom of God. 

I do not come to the people telling them that they will be 
exempt from all restraint of the law : none but a villainous 
demagogue would do that. The word liberty is in the mouth of 
every socialist robber that roams over the earth ; who would 
divide the honest gains of honest men among those who are idle 
and dishonest, and who would legislate that the provident and 
industrious classes should labor, and that the indolent and 
vicious should reap the proceeds thereof, and this under the 
banner of equality, liberty, government ! 

Ireland is seeking for liberty, and for what purpose? to set 
up the pope over the head of the good queen of England. If 
the queen were the pope of Rome, the Catholic Irish would be 
content enough. There are people yet living who can easily 
see through the thin gauze of hypocrisy which but poorly con- 
ceals the cry of liberty in Ireland. 

When the pope was a king in Rome, there were more beggars 
to the square acre in that city than in any other city on earth; 
and if he beggared his own people, what would he do for the 
idolaters of Ireland? He would curse it, as he has cursed every 
country under heaven that he has exercised any influence over. 

Give us a helping hand to wake up the people. Man has 
suffered, oh, so much ! Give us the weight of your influence, 
and we can do it. All we need is your assistance, and that we 
shall get, at least, enough to do it. 

Allow me, in conclusion, to say, to all who will follow our 
faith and fortune, that we shall not be defeated, let our numbers 
be ever so few. One shall chase a thousand, and two shall put 
ten thousand to flight. Thank God, I am not dependent on a 
majority of votes from a blind and corrupt world. We intend 
to fight out this battle on better principles, and on better promises 
and with a better covenant ; and we cordially invite the people 
to join our ranks. Come with us, and we will do you good ; for 
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